Flash: bananas radioactive

[trud]

In an urgent news brief, scientists today revealed that bananas emit radioactivity. Demonstrators rushed to the headquarters of the Dole Food Company with demands that the fruit be taken off the market.

Meanwhile, after news was released that humans emit radioactivity, Ms. Moran, the leader of a group opposing gay marriage, issued a statement. "This supports our stand that male homosexuality is an unnatural and dangerous activity. Since men are in general larger than women and therefore emit more radioactivity, a relationship between two men is naturally dangerous compared to a heterosexual relationship." Various journalists attempted to question Ms. Moran about the implications for a lesbian couple, but she refused to take questions.

On another front, it was revealed that the average dose of radiation per individual in Japan was now twice the yearly average. Although this is thousands of times below the dose with which any health effects are known to occur, various groups noted that the country was on the verge of collapse due to the devastating health effects that would be occurring, and that doubtless the next generations of Japanese would be indistinguishable from Godzilla, due to radiation effects.

In associated news, the Fox News revealed that there was new hope for the United States, since the Democrats' demonstrated complete absence of any knowledge of science or any sense of judgment about sensational and inaccurate news reporting boded well for the Tea Party and other Republication candidates in future elections.

[tahrir]

1. Talk about comparing bananas and plutonium

:shakes-head:

[pipi_k]

9. Did I miss something?

The OP didn't even mention the word "Plutonium".

Not that there isn't a big difference between radiation in things we come into contact with on any given day and radioactive waste, but the OP did NOT compare bananas and Plutonium.

[Javaman]

12. I guess you missed the day in school when they discussed Metaphor. nt

[trud]

14. tahrir

Sure. Of course, plutonium hasn't been found outside the reactor area, but don't let that affect your thought processes.

BP and Exxon must be laughing their heads off. The Gulf and Prince William Sound will probably never be clean, even now if you stick a shovel in the ground you find oil tar, and there's nothing that degrades it, and the fisheries have been wiped out. Ten years after Three Mile Island that site is completely clean.

[PA Democrat]

2. I hear that Tepco is hiring.

:eyes:

[mrbscott19]

3. They put lead vests on you when you get an X-ray

for a reason.

[Junkdrawer]

4. bananas, bricks, multiple nuclear meltdowns, what's the diff?

I mean they're all radioactive, right?

[kristopher]

5. Perhaps you would benefit from reading about ethics in science

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x284583

Try the first article.

Also see: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x758376

[mikeytherat]

6. Cool - I'll eat a tablespoon of banana, you eat a tablespoon of plutonium.

Yum yum!

mikey_the_rat

[VoteProgressive]

7. Maybe the dumbest post I have read here on the DU. nt

[mikeytherat]

8. 1oz. of plutonium? Enough to kill everyone on earth. 1oz. of banana? Makes me want more banana.

mikey_the_rat

[Sabriel]

10. What about the mini ones? Do they emit less?

And they're sooooooo cute!

[NightWatcher]

11. radioactive banana is one thing, but radioactive coconuts are another

No Nuke Nuts. It's a horrible thing when one nut becomes larger than the other two

[ensho]

13. don't know about them being radiated but they don't taste good anymore

year or more ago I finally stopped buying the large bananas because they didn't taste good.

bought the small finger ones but now they don't taste good anymore.

they pick bananas unripe and then gas them in the ship holds before sending them on to the markets.

maybe that is the bad taste.