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Re:Most men in the US and Europe could be infertile by 2060 by c3534l on Sunday August 27, 2017 @02:29AM (#15109429)
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.
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Re:Most men in the US and Europe could be infertile by 2060 by Clubber on Sunday August 27, 2017 @03:01AM (#15109531)
I wish I could say I lost two pounds this week. I probably gained. I will be the size of the known universe eventually.
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Re:Most men in the US and Europe could be infertile by 2060 by siberianbear on Sunday August 27, 2017 @03:14AM (#15109571)
I 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.
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Re:Most men in the US and Europe could be infertile by 2060 by ithkuil on Sunday August 27, 2017 @09:43AM (#15110743)
Provided that your density is low enough you don't necessary become a black hole by just gaining weight.
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Re:Most men in the US and Europe could be infertile by 2060 by Fjolsvith on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @11:01PM (#15129421)
Would one go supernova on the way to the black hole?
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Re:Most men in the US and Europe could be infertile by 2060 by glandium on Sunday August 27, 2017 @04:26AM (#15109722)
Speaking 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
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Re:Most men in the US and Europe could be infertile by 2060 by tchow on Sunday August 27, 2017 @03:07AM (#15109554)
They took a trend of 40 years. You took a trend of 1 week.
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Re:Most men in the US and Europe could be infertile by 2060 by ramblerman on Sunday August 27, 2017 @01:54PM (#15111809)
Doesn'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.

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Re:Most men in the US and Europe could be infertile by 2060 by openmosix on Sunday August 27, 2017 @03:09PM (#15112165)
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/605/
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