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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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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah this graph is weird. The axis is labeled size, but measured in kg which is neither mass nor size.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Kg is mass

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

I stand corrected.