radiation en route to Mars

Well you caught me without a link handy and my memory
is not perfect. I have forwarded this question off to
the Health Physics Society to see if they can support
or discredit my assertion.

I got my information origionally from a science news
article on dioxin contamination among other things and
how it turned out that boy babies were a lot more
susceptible to this than girls. In a couple of cases
only girls were born though this was due to chemicals
and not radiation.

Somewhere in there was a statistical observation that
male airline pilots have a strikingly higher chance of
having girls than boys. I know a few commercial
airline pilots and they mentioned that their colleges
have girls so I didn't question this as much as maybe
I should have. Mayby I just got luckly and mangled a
few memories together along the way.

- Thor

I question the ratio of boys to girls, reference
please.

According to this article:

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0UBT/8_15/70734907/p1/article.jhtm
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"Aircrew Exposure to Cosmic Radiation Involves only
Slight Cancer
Risk."

"The exposure to cosmic radiation from a year of
flying is roughly
equivalent to receiving a barium enema"

--- In ssi_list@... "Huebner, Jay"
> I am inclined to agree with your position, but do
you have a
reference for the 3:1 girl/boy for pilots? Jay
Huebner
>
> Commercial airline pilots have a reported ratio of
3:1
> girl to boy in their offspring. This is with just
the