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Dont forget to peel your bananas folks!!!!

Dont be toooooo worried Riz, I couldnt send a birthday card last week for love nor money, I tried for hours too - the site itself may well be having some probs

Dont forget to peel your bananas folks!!!!

maybe exit, clear cookies and then try again - its a mad mad mad mad CS at the mo

Stem cells could help blind patients to see within six weeks

Stem cells could help blind patients to see within six weeks

Its mind blowing her Conrad Im so glad nobody took any notice of the nay sayers

Stem cells could help blind patients to see within six weeks

awww, give her some hugs from me please BB - it must be pretty devastating to lose your sight - I hope her other one is ok

Dont forget to peel your bananas folks!!!!

It seems you and Conrad both have great minds that think alike Pat

Dont forget to peel your bananas folks!!!!

Conrad that is totally bananas

Stem cells could help blind patients to see within six weeks

Yep, I hope the applicatios will be in our lifetimes too and at this rate I think theres every chance though the current bunch of politicos seem happier to spend money on bombs and ways to cut the populace than to find ways to lessen suffering for people in pain.........

Dont forget to peel your bananas folks!!!!

cor blimey - the innocent banana - lookie at this - we will all be glowing in the dark soon.......

Banana equivalent dose
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A banana equivalent dose is a concept occasionally used by nuclear power proponents to place in scale the dangers of radiation by comparing exposures to the radiation generated by a common banana.

Many foods are naturally radioactive, and bananas are particularly so, due to the radioactive potassium-40 they contain. The banana equivalent dose is the radiation exposure received by eating a single banana. Radiation leaks from nuclear plants are often measured in extraordinarily small units (the picocurie, a millionth of a millionth of a curie, is typical). By comparing the exposure from these events to a banana equivalent dose, a more intuitive assessment of the actual risk can sometimes be obtained.

The average radiologic profile of bananas is 3520 picocuries per kg, or roughly 520 picocuries per 150g banana. The equivalent dose for 365 bananas (one per day for a year) is 3.6 millirems (36 µSv).

Bananas are radioactive enough to regularly cause false alarms on radiation sensors used to detect possible illegal smuggling of nuclear material at US ports.

Another way to consider the concept is by comparing the risk from radiation-induced cancer to that from cancer from other sources. For instance, a radiation exposure of 10 mrems (10,000,000,000 picorems) increases your risk of death by about one in one million—the same risk as eating 40 tablespoons of peanut butter, or of smoking 1.4 cigarettes.

Dont forget to peel your bananas folks!!!!

haha, Id forgotten that

Dont forget to peel your bananas folks!!!!

Hiya Lucy

Straightening bananas is about as absurd as curing gays

The entire beauty of the banana tree would be totally screwed if they started doing that - they would look like spiky balls instead of.... (well, I wont say what just came to mind) suffice it to say Im currently rolling on the floor laughing

Stem cells could help blind patients to see within six weeks

Its the total opposite of the autogenocide and eugenics brigades and the potential is stupendous with applications not just with the eyes but with all parts of the body and genetics as far as I can make out - yeah

Stem cells could help blind patients to see within six weeks

I think it will, the potential is there and the research as well as the technology and what isnt in place will be brought to the fore by these amazing people who's goals and objectives are towards the greater good of mankind - woo hoo

Dont forget to peel your bananas folks!!!!

I wouldnt have believed this is I hadnt read it myself....... What the heck is this quote about - its it a back door way of letting you know that the price of bananas is going to sky rocket or do your FDA really think you need to be reminded to peel your 'nana's

Have any of you actually noticed this happening with your bananas or what> Im confused - or is that amused


"bananas' tough, fibrous outer layer should always be removed before consumption"

it comes from this

"Terrified FDA Warns Something Making Bananas Black After Several Days

November 29, 2010 | ISSUE 46•48


WASHINGTON—The Food and Drug Administration made an emergency announcement Monday to alert all U. S. citizens that "a force or forces unknown" is turning seemingly normal bananas black, soft, and virtually inedible in as little as 72 hours. "Whatever is causing the dramatic and frankly disgusting changes in these bananas is able to penetrate any container and is completely undetectable by any known instrument," said visibly shaken FDA commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg, adding that the black sections of banana were "quite mushy and gross." "We urge anyone currently in possession of normal yellow bananas to consume them immediately, before this mysterious blackening malignancy can strike—and it will strike." The disturbing news comes only weeks after the FDA's announcement that bananas' tough, fibrous outer layer should always be removed before consumption.

RE: am i being to honest and open.

I think your profile reads well Craig - Rome wasnt built in a day and all that It (whatever 'it' is) will happen when you least expect it - just be happy for now on the forums, its a great way for people to see your personality

Stem cells could help blind patients to see within six weeks

I think this stuff is totally amazing!

quote from


Blind patients suffering from a type of eye disease that strikes in childhood will become the second group of people in the world to receive stem cells derived from spare IVF embryos left over from fertility treatment.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the go-ahead for the controversial transplant of embryonic stem cells into the eyes of patients with Stargardt's macular degeneration, where the light-sensitive retina cells at the back of eye are destroyed.

The announcement follows the first injection of embryonic stem cells into a patient in the US who is partially paralysed as a result of a spinal cord injury. Last October, a US biotechnology company, Geron, announced the start of the first clinical trial of embryonic stem cells with the hope of repairing damaged nerves.

Another US biotechnology firm, Advanced Cell Technology, has now been given approval for a second clinical trial involving the injection of thousands of embryonic stem cells into the eyes of a dozen adult patients with a juvenile form of macular degeneration.

Robert Lanza, the company's chief scientific officer, said that the first patient could receive the stem cell transplants early in the new year and although the trial is designed primarily to assess safety, the first signs of visual improvement may be apparent within weeks."


woo hoo, I wish them the very best of luck!!!

RE: John Cleese on Sarah Palin

Nice find Steve

RE: Thanksgiving Day - the truth behind the myth

Thanks Annie, most Christians find stuff like this inconceivable of their religion - Id read similar in the past but thanks for the reminder, it makes the stance I feel compelled to take easier to bear

A quote from the link;

"Battle is only one of the ways to destroy an enemy’s will to fight. Massacre can accomplish the same end with less risk, and Mason had determined that massacre would be his objective.”

The colonist army surrounded a fortified Pequot village on the Mystic River. At sunrise, as the inhabitants slept, the Puritan soldiers set the village on fire.

William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth, wrote: “Those that escaped the fire were slain with the sword; some hewed to pieces, others run through with their rapiers, so that they were quickly dispatched and very few escaped. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire…horrible was the stink and scent thereof, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them.”

RE: WikiLeaks

Sincere apologies Boban, I didnt see this thread till just now - silly me

RE: Does True Love Ever Fade Away ?

You are quite likely one of a very select few Ginger

RE: Have you attended any religious service in the last 30 days?

Oh I missed that yesterday, work was being done on my line then was just too tired to post so read instead......... It sounds good and you'll have to keep us informed

RE: All new, songs for your mood right now.

ok, third and final try, bit different link

RE: All new, songs for your mood right now.

RE: All new, songs for your mood right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTHqYm4FZU4&feature=related[/youtube

RE: All new, songs for your mood right now.

RE: All new, songs for your mood right now.

RE: All new, songs for your mood right now.

RE: All new, songs for your mood right now.

Im not even a fan of most musicals but I have a couple of ones that I like - heres another

RE: All new, songs for your mood right now.

RE: All new, songs for your mood right now.

Ive no idea what just triggered the memory for this one - its an oldie even by my standards - mad corny warning