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With their 13 years recording and performing together and two humans worth of mass, the White Stripes are sandwiched neatly between gray wolves and blue whales.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3283/
The linear pattern of the things plotted here weirds me out. Is there really such a clear life-time / size trend? Or were specific things chosen to be listed because they follow a roughly linear trend on the log-log plot?
Somebody already posted the famous phrase in another thread:
It’s like the opposite of a smith chart.
You know, I was going to say that tetration or busy beaver numbers would counter that argument, but then again I guess they’d pretty much just look like vertical lines if the stroke weight of the marker was enough to cover the curved behavior around zero.
he’s only plotting things that fit on the trend, log log is very forgiving. but if protins were in there yhey would be far to the left and all the way up higher than stars
I can at least think of a few counterexamples:
Small dogs live longer than big dogs generally too
Checkmate atheists