{"id":3154,"date":"2011-04-04T19:42:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T02:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2011-04-04T19:42:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T02:42:26","slug":"tsa-icarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2011\/04\/04\/19\/42\/tsa-icarus\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA Icarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/archinternmed.2011.105\">Arch Int Medicine article<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/more?pz=1&#038;cf=all&#038;cf=all&#038;ncl=d7n8BNgkv2zA91MGZoN_XNYLYlKNM\">quoted widely<\/a> and contained this interesting statement:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/eletters\/archinternmed.2011.105v1#125\" title=\"The statement within the article 'Naturally occurring radiation is higher at the altitudes of commercial air flights because of the greater proximity to the sun' is incorrect. The Sun is 150x10E6 Km away from the earth and commercial airliners cruise at altitudes of around 10 Km, where 'closer' in this context only applies for airliners cruising within daylit areas of the earth, and for non-sunlit areas the airliners are in fact slightly further away from the sun than observers on the ground beneath them. In either case, the extra distance created by the airliner's cruising altitude is infinitesimal compared to the average Sun-Earth distance. The reason for the higher background ionizing radiation at higher altitudes is due to the increasingly rarefied atmosphere, which provides less scattering and absorption of incoming radiation from astronomical sources (including but not limited to the Sun).\">Naturally occurring radiation is higher at the altitudes of commercial air flights because of the greater proximity to the sun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Arch Int Medicine article was quoted widely and contained this interesting statement: Naturally occurring radiation is higher at the altitudes of commercial air flights because of the greater proximity to the sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1081,1082,1086,1085,10,1084,1080,1083],"tags":[1861,1862,1088,1865,1864,1863,1860,1087],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arch-int-med","category-archives-of-internal-medicine","category-backscatter","category-body-scanner","category-medicine","category-radiation","category-tsa","category-x-rays","tag-arch-int-med","tag-archives-of-internal-medicine","tag-astronomical-unit","tag-backscatter","tag-body-scanner","tag-radiation","tag-tsa","tag-x-ray"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}