exponential growth theme
A very rapid kind of growth by which the amount of a quantity increases at a rate proportional to the amount already present.
Examples
Sulu explained how Gary Mitchell's psychic ability was increasing geometrically in tos1x01 "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
6 total · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Space Truckers (1996) | minor | It was explained that the cyborg warriors acted in waves of first one, then two, then four, then eight, and so on. |
| movie: The Puppet Masters (1994) | minor | The government agents described how a starting population of 1000 human co-opting neural parasites that were doubling every 12 hours would number in excess of 250 billion within two weeks. |
| shortstory: Vampires of the Desert (1929) | minor | Barry observed that the murders were approximately doubling by the day, which led Henshaw to conclude that everyone would be wiped out within a week. |
| tos1x01 | minor | Sulu explained that doubling a penny everyday for a month would make you a millionaire. |
| tos2x19 | minor | McCoy explained that the giant space amoeba would split into two, then four, then eight, etc. |
| tos3x17 | minor | It was noted that the population on Gideon had grown exponentially. |