Plane vs. Security Line
Two log-scale bar charts: a flight and an airport security line take about the same time, though the flight covers about 10,000 times the distance.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-09-16-plane-vs-security-line/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Bar chart, log scale] DISTANCE: Plane ~1000 km; Security Line ~0.2 km. [Bar chart, log scale] TIME: Plane ~1 hr; Security Line ~1 hr.
"I'm not sure if the point is how much I hate security lines, or how grateful I am for planes."