created by soccer on 05/03/2014 at 09:14 UTC
14 upvotes, 15 top-level comments (showing 15)
Comment by trevdak2 at 05/03/2014 at 15:09 UTC
29 upvotes, 4 direct replies
This makes me kinda sad.
Comment by shujin at 05/03/2014 at 17:22 UTC
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'm surprised by the lack of labeling.
Comment by checcf at 05/03/2014 at 09:46 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Love these ones, very interesting.
Now I want one for all of Earths biomass!
Comment by smechile at 05/03/2014 at 14:30 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Hardest game of Minesweeper ever.
Comment by xkcd_bot at 05/03/2014 at 09:18 UTC
14 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Direct image link: Land Mammals
(I randomly choose names for the altitlehover text because I like to watch you squirm. Love, xkcd_bot.)
Comment by gwtkof at 05/03/2014 at 17:25 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I want to know where pigeons, rats, and other city vermin fit in. Even though they're small you'd think they'd be a noticeable slice.
Comment by [deleted] at 06/03/2014 at 01:01 UTC*
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by moethehobo at 05/03/2014 at 15:33 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is a pretty cool idea, but very poorly executed, which is surprising. It's very difficult to compare the sizes of cattle and humans, for example. At first glance, I thought there was more biomass of cattle, but it may just look like that because how the cattle overlaps the humans. Also, there are so many unlabelled sections that it's basically useless unless you want to know about humans, common livestock, and elephants...
Maybe an 'other' category would be good as well? Because anything less than a million tons won't show up, and maybe the sum of species less than a million tons is a significant amount of land mammal biomass.
Comment by GrethSC at 05/03/2014 at 12:01 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Anyone else trying to make out a shape ?
Comment by xsvbbcc at 05/03/2014 at 14:11 UTC
2 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Where are the 19 billion pounds of chickens, and if cows weigh 1.6 trillion pounds why do elephants get their own square at 8 million pounds? (All numbers skimmed from Google.)
Comment by Filmore at 05/03/2014 at 15:44 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
R^2 is a bitch, makes the % appear skewed in favor of the center
Comment by seFausto at 05/03/2014 at 20:43 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Doesn't this remind you of Conway's "Game of Life"?
Comment by complexitivity at 05/03/2014 at 23:21 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
1 square = 1 megatonne.
Comment by securitywyrm at 09/03/2014 at 04:15 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This would probably have more impact on me if I wasn't colorblind. I can't tell the difference between the "Wild animals" and "humans" colors.
Comment by [deleted] at 05/03/2014 at 16:30 UTC
0 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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