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If you take any trend in any direction and extrapolate it linearly, you will always wind up with an absurd number. I lost two pounds this week. At this rate I'l
by c3534l 9y ago
If you take any trend in any direction and extrapolate it linearly, you will always wind up with an absurd number. I lost two pounds this week. At this rate I'll be dead in a year or two and weigh negative 50 pounds on the third.
- Clubber 9y agoI wish I could say I lost two pounds this week. I probably gained. I will be the size of the known universe eventually.
- siberianbear 9y agoI assure that this is not your fate. Eventually you'd become so large that you collapse into a black hole, and then you'd slowly evaporate due to Hawking Radiation. Nature has a feedback mechanism for everything.
- tchow 9y agoThey took a trend of 40 years. You took a trend of 1 week.
- ramblerman 9y agoDoesn't matter to the point he is making. > I grew 182cm in the first 40 years of my life, By that rate I will be more than 3.5m tall in my eighties.
- glandium 9y agoSpeaking of absurd extrapolations, at the current population growth rate, the human race will have used all the particules in the universe in only 8604 years. https://youtu.be/lpj0E0a0mlU https://youtu.be/lpj0E0a0mlU
- openmosix 9y agoRelevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/605/ https://xkcd.com/605/