Some Obscurish facts
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Since you are probably using a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitor to view this file, you might as well know: Computer monitors add about one millirem per year to the average computer user's radiation load. Whew! I thought it would be worse. If you are using an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) laptop computer, your radiation dosage is considerably reduced. Radioactivity from a laptop computer is probably less than from an average rock. The laptop computer's electromagnetic radiation, which is an entirely different kind of radiation, is far less than that which comes from a CRT monitor, but there may still be some, both from the fluorescent backlighting and from the hard disk or floppy drive motor.
Since you are probably using a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitor to view this file, you might as well know: Computer monitors add about one millirem per year to the average computer user's radiation load. Whew! I thought it would be worse. If you are using an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) laptop computer, your radiation dosage is considerably reduced. Radioactivity from a laptop computer is probably less than from an average rock. The laptop computer's electromagnetic radiation, which is an entirely different kind of radiation, is far less than that which comes from a CRT monitor, but there may still be some, both from the fluorescent backlighting and from the hard disk or floppy drive motor.