3283: Size and Lifespan
| 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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This comic presents a correlation between the size (in kg, therefore more accurately, the mass) of different objects with colors in their names, and their size and lifespan. It is similar to common charts that map the size versus lifespan of various animals, showing that, broadly, the larger they are, the longer they live. Here, however, it covers entirely unrelated classes of objects (animals, features of the Earth, and even stars), appearing to suggest that there is some universal cosmic trend across all entities named with a color. Only black holes are complete outliers although at either end of the scale, white blood cells and stars are 'smeared' across the chart, crossing areas that fit the apparent trend, but also straying away from it.
| Object | Approximate Lifespan (Seconds) | Approximate Weight (Kilograms) | Explanation |
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| White blood cells | 105 | 10-10 | |
| Yellowjackets | 107 | 10-4 | |
| Gray wolves | 108 | 100 | |
| Blue whales | 109 | 102 | |
| Black holes | 100-10200 | 105-1010 | |
| Red Sea | 1014 | 1015 | |
| Greenland | 1016 | 1019 | |
| Red dwarfs | 1020 | 1030 | |
| Blue giants | 1014 | 1032 |
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I am surprised black holes have so little mass. Can this be correct? 163.116.173.198 a black hole
- Black holes can come in a vast range of masses - we're only seeing the relatively tiny short-lived ones, but they extend well off the chart into much more massive and long-lived ones. 82.13.184.33 12:20, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
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