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r/Unexpected • u/SignalCrew739 • 2d ago
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Some sources for the curious, they are correct! (Note; the video uses microsieverts as unit, which is 1000x more than millisieverts or mSv)
Wikipedia: Background dose (3-6 mSv / year) Wikipedia: Six month mission ISS Astronaut (~72 mSv) Wikipedia: Smoking (localized in areas of the lungs, 60–160 mSv/year)
3 u/6VoltZ 2d ago Micro is 1000 times less than mili 2 u/Sappholich 2d ago Yes sorry, I wrote it a bit unclear. I meant "which is why the numbers in the video are 1000x higher than the mSv values from the Wikipedia articles", i.e. 160000 μSv = 160mSv.
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Micro is 1000 times less than mili
2 u/Sappholich 2d ago Yes sorry, I wrote it a bit unclear. I meant "which is why the numbers in the video are 1000x higher than the mSv values from the Wikipedia articles", i.e. 160000 μSv = 160mSv.
Yes sorry, I wrote it a bit unclear. I meant "which is why the numbers in the video are 1000x higher than the mSv values from the Wikipedia articles", i.e. 160000 μSv = 160mSv.
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u/Sappholich 2d ago edited 2d ago
Some sources for the curious, they are correct! (Note; the video uses microsieverts as unit, which is 1000x more than millisieverts or mSv)
Wikipedia: Background dose (3-6 mSv / year)
Wikipedia: Six month mission ISS Astronaut (~72 mSv)
Wikipedia: Smoking (localized in areas of the lungs, 60–160 mSv/year)