Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for March 05, 2015
Transcript:
We could not solve the Fermi Paradox. If there are aliens out there, how come we haven't heard from them? So we set up a listening apparatus. One day, there was a signal. It's... A schematic... For a giant machine... The massive machine was a labyrinth of complexity. I don't get it. 95 percent of the parts seem redundant. No time to talk. I'm working on this tunnel to nowhere. And yet, on completion, whirred to life with the touch of a button. There is no longer a Fermi Paradox wait! That's the solution! Oh, mother fu-
Julius Marold Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Actually, the Aliens sent the schematic to see if we were dumb enough to try and build something that did nothing. Pssh, we do it all the time.
Ida No almost 10 years ago
The reason we haven’t heard from the aliens yet is because they really don’t like to be disturbed.