I can't be the only person who looked at that graph and burst out with a cackle that startled everyone around them. The deep and inescapable dread of that fire

I can't be the only person who looked at that graph and burst out with a cackle that startled everyone around them. The deep and inescapable dread of that fire burning around you even as you make history must have been quite a feeling. Or in the vernacular of youth: "This is fine. Everything is fine" as a scaling graph.