Reply #19: Yes, it does look static

[DavidDvorkin]

The dark lines are trend lines. Actually, they're fifth-order polynomial fits, which probably don't mean anything since there's no underlying physical process for the polynomials to approximate. Such fits will only be useful when the race is over, as a way of trying to see when trends developed and what they were. I added them in hopes that they'd show trends, but there really aren't any yet.