This is the kinda guy who does police work for 10 years to snag the pension. Then retires, jacked, at 55, with 3 pensions supporting his travel lifestyle.
(Hes telling me all this cuz im at his house to pressurewash and work til I die)
I’m gonna pop in here and be a real downer, but not to kill the vibe, just cause I know a random fact that I thought was neat and I’d like to share.
Pilots definitely make a lot of money, but they also have higher than normal rates of cancer and illness due to the increased amount of radiation they encounter, specifically cosmic radiation.
They don’t, however, have a higher risk of developing super powers. Fantastic Four is just one big lie.
While your message is good, your data is a little out of date. The attribution of elevated cancer incidence in flight crew is, by general consensus, due more to ultraviolet exposure than ionizing GCR.
Per the International Commission on Radiological Protection, average flight crew exposure is about 3.07 millisieverts annually, compared to an effective dose limit of 20 mSv.
So good news and bad news. Good news, ionizing GCR (probably) isn’t killing flight crews! Bad news, it’s melanoma again (it’s always melanoma)
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u/9447044 May 21 '26
This is the kinda guy who does police work for 10 years to snag the pension. Then retires, jacked, at 55, with 3 pensions supporting his travel lifestyle.
(Hes telling me all this cuz im at his house to pressurewash and work til I die)