Originally Posted by
B2N2
I think the drive the airport is potentially more hazardous to your ability to produce offspring.
If you’re this concerned go crop dusting....really.
The chemicals will make your sterile.....bugger.
Become a simulator instructor and live like a mushroom in the dark.
Till a King Air has an engine failure and rolls into your building.
Maybe stay at home in bed.
I'm with
B2N2 on this one. Is the OP a member of the Snowflake generation, by any chance?
To be serious, am afraid I can't offer any technical knowledge on cosmic radiation, except that it presumably becomes more of a problem above the tropopause? So I take the point about polar flying - even at relatively low cruise levels. Anecdotally, I can say that I'm male and conceived several children (including one boy) in my twenties while on long-haul jets that frequently flew above the trop.