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title text: They're a little cagey about exactly where the crossover point lies relative to the likelihood of devastating effects on the planet.

(xkcd.com/2878)
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Single panel comic.

A graph with the X-axis labeled "How far away the supernova is" and Y-axis labeled "How happy astronomers are"

The X-axis has 9 tick marks, the Y-axis has 6. Neither has units.

The curve starts well below Y = 0 at X slightly less than 1. It increases rapidly to ~6 when X reaches 2. It slowly drops off to about Y = 1 by X = 7.
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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

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Eek!
The right half of the graph is boring. But the left hand side is terrifying!

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