Mystery chart

 contest
Jul 202011
 

Here’s another contest: ten dollars in download-credit to whoever correctly ID’s this chart. What’s the X-axis, what’s the Y-axis?

Here’s a hint: I suspect most regular readers of this blog will cackle like saddened criminally insane supervillains when you figure it out.

 Posted by at 10:49 pm

  6 Responses to “Mystery chart”

  1. Brickmuppet says:
    July 21, 2011 at 8:09 am

    x axis is years from “present” (actually around the time of Apollo 11)
    y axis is number of people expected to be living in space dependent on which manned space program was chosen.

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  2. Gridlock says:
    July 21, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    Assuming that to be correct, why the +/- 35 oscillations every 4 or 5 years? Can’t place that in the context.

    • Brickmuppet says:
      July 24, 2011 at 8:15 am

      Staff rotations on Mars…a certain number will return, but there will be a population spike while they wait for the return launch window….of course Scott Hasn’t called it yet so there may be a wee flaw in my reasoning. (I did see a broadly similar chart with those variables some time ago)

  3. Rich Todd says:
    July 22, 2011 at 7:01 am

    The bouncy horizontal lines looks like something to do with number of congress members up for re-election.
    I’ll guess the line with the increasing trend is congressional pay?

  4. Michael Holt says:
    July 22, 2011 at 9:12 am

    Congressional campaign expenditures?

  5. Dan Eastwood says:
    August 24, 2011 at 11:28 pm

    X axis = Commercial Phase

    Y axis = Crew In Orbit

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