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Comic with the headline "An asteroid is headed straight for earth! That's..." A logarithmic scale labeled "Asteroid size" increases from 1 cm to 10,000 km. For each size category, there is a corresponding message about the potential consequences: 1 cm: "Good news! Meteors are pretty!" 30 cm: "Great news! You might see a fireball!" 2 meter: "Ok news, unless you have expensive windows or are very unlucky." 100 meters: "Bad news, especially if you live near the city it's aimed at." 1 km: "Bad news, especially if you live on the continent it's aimed at." 10 km: "Bad news for your species." 50 km: "Bad news for your phylum." 200 km: "Bad news for your biosphere." 2,000 km: "Good news for any life that might someday evolve on Earth's new moon." 25,000 km: "Bad news for whatever planet is about to get hit by Earth." Hidden text: "The bottom ones are also potentially bad news for any other planets in our solar system that have been counting on Earth having a stable orbit."