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Ask the pilot Do airplanes make you fart more? What happened to the dog hair on my suitcase? The pilot lets us in on readers' probing questions.
  • Cosmic Radiation Maybe

    You know, the dog hair thing is interesting. My guess is it was radiation that removed the static. But not from an X-ray machine; it was rather cosmic radiation received during the flight. Where did the hair go? It just fell off the case in the luggage hold. The short article below lends this theory some credence.

    http://www.epa.gov/ttnamti1/files/ambient/pm25/qa/static.pdf

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