Charting and ranking apocalyptic events

For Domain of Science, Dominic Walliman attempts to chart all of the deadly events that threaten humanity on a scatterplot. On the horizontal axis he places number of casualties. On the vertical he places likelihood. So something like, oh, say, a global pandemic ends up in the top middle of the plot.

See also Walliman’s video of the same flavor where he attempts to illustrate everything in the known universe.

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