560: Lithium Batteries - Revision history

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 [[Randall]] muses that his life would have been better if he aged in reverse; this idea is based on a timeline of the usage of {{w|Lithium-ion battery|lithium-ion batteries}}. The reasoning is that each of these uses would come to realization when he most needed it; cheap {{w|RC planes}} as a child, a cellphone when he is a teenager and also later for when he is a successful businessman and finally a pacemaker when he is old.
-The time-reversed aging is probably a direct reference to "{{w|The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story)|The Curious Case of Benjamin Button}}", by {{w|F. Scott Fitzgerald}}, a film of which was released in December 2008, a few months before this comic appeared.  Randall has used this theme before in [[270: Merlin]], referencing another backward-time-travelling character (in that case, from "{{w|The Once and Future King}}" by {{w|T. H. White}}).
+The time-reversed aging is probably a direct reference to "{{w|The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story)|The Curious Case of Benjamin Button}}", by {{w|F. Scott Fitzgerald}}, a film of which was released in December 2008, a few months before this comic appeared.  Randall has used this theme before in [[270: Merlin]], referencing another backward-time-traveling character (in that case, from "{{w|The Once and Future King}}" by {{w|T. H. White}}).
 Lithium-ion batteries have the highest energy density of any widely available battery, and for this reason are commonly used in portable electronic devices such as laptops, tablets and smartphones, and also the newest airliners such as the {{w|Boeing 787 Dreamliner}}.