By: ForestFire0

This is a horribly reasoned article. As a commenter above pointed out, the decreasing size of planets and mammals would indicated an improvement in technology. It would have made a little more sense (but not a lot) to look at the number of planets or mammals discovered.
Also, there are only a finite number of elements to be found. Even before some were discovered in the lab, their properties were predicted based on the periodic table groups. So referencing elements in a article about discoveries being more difficult is pretty stupid.
Since I've criticized every other graph, might as well finish off the category. Inflation is not some constant multiplier applied every year. It's an approximation of how costs are changing through the economy. Some goods and services might be experiencing inflation at a faster or slower rate than the overall rate of inflation. So labeling it with "inflation adjusted" doesn't mean it actually is.