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xkcd #3283: Size and Lifespan

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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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[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

That's not what I was saying. What I was saying is that if they are light in mass (kilos, tons) they need to be dense. Didn't wanna write a book just for that one point, and it already got long-ish anyway.