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xkcd #3283: Size and Lifespan (lemmy.nz)

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xkcd #3283: Size and Lifespan

Title text:

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/

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[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 68 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's a versatile chart scale

[–] Elting@piefed.social 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Log scales will always be cool AF.

[–] MoonManKipper@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I dunno, man, I can chain a metric fuckton of !s.