Americans identifying as LGBTQ+

Between 2012 and 2022, LGBTQ+ self-identification and tracked orbital debris objects both increased, correlating at 0.9624 across eleven data points. Both social self-identification and space debris have the common property of never meaningfully decreasing. Once an object is tracked in orbit, it stays tracked. Once a survey percentage rises, it doesn't fall. Both metrics are ratchets, and two ratchets will always correlate because neither can go backward.

LGBTQ+ identification grew from 3.5% to over 7%. Tracked debris objects grew from roughly 23,000 to over 30,000. Both are monotonically increasing series—one social, one physical—that cannot decrease without unprecedented intervention.

Two metrics that only increase will always correlate across any shared window. The r-value measures shared monotonicity, not shared causation.