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What does a salmon have in common with a man on a bicycle? They are both Pareto-efficient. Here's a chart of cost of transport (calories/gram/km) vs weight (kg
by erostrate 3y ago
What does a salmon have in common with a man on a bicycle?
They are both Pareto-efficient. Here's a chart of cost of transport (calories/gram/km) vs weight (kg) comparing a salmon vs a bicycle vs a jet fighter etc: https://www.bike.nyc/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/efficiency-graph.png https://www.bike.nyc/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/efficiency-g...
- mungoman2 3y agoFun! But how to read the Y axis? Why does it start from 1 twice?
- theamk 3y agoit's a logarithimic scale [0] Those go 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, .. 1, 2, 4, ... 10, 20, 40... I am guessing they printed "0.1" as ".1", and because it's a really bad scan the ".1" and "1" look identical. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale
- kachnuv_ocasek 3y agoI think it starts at .1 at the bottom, but the scan quality makes it difficult to discern the decimal.
- abeppu 3y agoWhen is that measuring the salmon? Surely, calories per gram per kilometer is very high if you're swimming upstream and low when you're going downstream, right? Is this when they're in the ocean phase?