Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 21, 2017

Carl has better odds.

alpine skiing, Pig, probably, but water skiing might be another matter

Carl has billions and billions of places to look for it, though.

Carl has billions and billions of places to look for it, though.

Mr. Sagan?

Pig’s “if” presupposes global warming!

Of course there’s intelligent life here. They’re busy looking for intelligent life elsewhere.

The intelligent life out there doesn’t want us to detect them, because they are intelligent.

Tell Carl to check out Uranus, Rat…

50 light years from here, intelligent life will be receiving new episodes of Gilligan’s Island, Hogan’s Heros, and F Troop . So they will conclude that there is no intelligent life here.

The SUREST SIGN that there is intelligent life in the universe is the fact that NO ONE has tried to contact us! Would YOU voluntarily go visit a planet-sized insane asylum??

Wonko the Sane is Outside the Asylum!

I predict a boom in indoor skiing.

Stay out of California. None there for sure.

I recall a very short story from a long time ago. The alien scout ship returns to the mother ship and turns in their report on this planet “Earth”:

“It’s a nice enough planet, but we advise against ever going back.”

“Why is that?”

“Because they test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere!”

Pig, your Spaceship of the Imagination has taken a wrong turn; better check the maps.

But the ancient astronaut theorists suggest that intelligent life from outer space have always been visiting this planet…

Try looking for it in the “Intelligent Life” comic, Rat.

Define “Intelligent Life”

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Get back to your lab, Carl, before you are contaminated by Rat and Pig!

Any relation to astrophysicist Carl Sagan? You might think so, but sadly he passed away 20 years before this strip..