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Caption above Panel One: The Fermi Paradox: Planets are so common that life should be, too. So where is it?
Panel One: Drawing of a stick figure running, with a small puff of smoke behind to indicate speed. The stick figure’s arms and legs have extra flaps of fabric.
Panel Two: Same stick figure, still running.
Caption: Well, now we know. It’s not that life inevitably destroys itself with war.
Caption above Panel Three: It’s just that it takes longer to develop space colonization
Panel Three: The stick figure leaps off a high cliff.
Caption below Panel Three: Than it does to invent an activity more fun than survival.
Panel Four: A Youtube-like video shows the stick figure from before hurtling downwards, screaming “Wheeeee!” with arms and legs widespread. The fabric flaps are revealed to be bat-like wings. Unseen observers are saying “Holy crap!” and “I don’t care how dangerous it is. I have to try it!”
Hover text: And no avian society ever develops space travel because it’s impossible to focus on calculus when you could be outside flying.
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget under the Creative Commons license.
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