Bananas: My dentist told me the radiation dose from an X-ray was less than eating a banana.
I thought he was bananas, but apparently there is a concept of Banana Equivalent Dose (BED) to make the concept of radiation exposure easily digestible
This is a scale. Cheese slice > fag paper > bawhair > gnat’s cock.
British Thermal Units per cubic Megaparsec
I find it curious that we don’t do this more. Like, we’d say “America is five thousand kilometres away.” No, it’s five megametres away. We have absolutely no issue with putting 16 gigabytes of RAM and a 1 terabyte hard disk in a computer, why do we fail so badly with say a 60 kilolitre swimming pool?
because Megameters is very obviously a villain in a cheap Saturday morning cartoon, or a character in of those educational TV programmes of the ’70’s to help kids work out maths
Having watched the Stormchasers series on tv sometime back, those are the small ones, hail precursor to an F3/4 tornado can be the size of apples, and with spikes, those can and do kill people! You wouldn’t want to be ground zero when these were falling…
Oh, and a banana is now the standard reference for any unit of measurement, length, breadth, width, height, etc.
those are the small ones, hail precursor to an F3/4 tornado can be the size of apples, and with spikes, those can and do kill people!
This hail at my place
Did this to the eucalyptus trees they look like they had been strafed by machine guns (plus sandblasted and dented the roof). It happened in the middle of the night which people were amazed by with 100mph wind. Definitely think I’d have been killed if I’d been outside.
Since Brexit we’re no longer bound by the standard EU approved banana length, rendering it useless as a unit of measurement. I’d suggest Greggs pastie as an Imperial system replacement
@reeksy – that sort of hail is usually due to a Severe Convective Storm (SCS). They often have 3, sometimes 4, components each of which is scary in their own right – straight line winds (very strong gusts), hail, tornado and occasionally terrible lightning storms
As you know they are increasing in frequency in AUS but also in the US (think tornado alley) and in Europe too. There have been some very large storms in France in recent years and northern Italy, Germany and Austria too.