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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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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 61 points 20 hours ago

Somebody already posted the famous phrase in another thread:

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

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 points 19 hours ago

It's like the opposite of a smith chart.

[-] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago

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.

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