Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 23, 2019

and Lucy would be the self-proclaimed leader of Earth?

Who’d want to contact a crabapple like Lucy, may i ask? :/

Maybe that’s why they do not make contact.

You never know

Wow, talk about an ego!

Now it all makes sense.

No Lucy, it just means the aliens are intelligent!

If the aliens ever abducted Lucy, it would be THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF all over again. After about five minutes, they’d pay us to take her back.

You? For what reason? To learn how to boss other aliens around?

The Fermi Paradox: Where are they?

Not even the “Ancient Alien Theorists” would promote a alien/Lucy visitation …

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm in Linus’s comment

If there are beings with superior intelligence on other planets, you can be sure they won’t be trying to contact us.

The narcissistic personality disorder is strong in that one….

If you are refering to other people in outer space: Remember Krypton (Superman’s planet), Ork (Mork’s planet), Melmac (ALF’s planet), and Mobius (Sonic the Hedgehog’s planet)?

Scorpio’s comment is an often-repeated, somewhat tongue in cheek explanation as to why we see so little evidence of extraterrestrial life (and probably an accurate one!). That said, there may be a simpler reason as to why, if they exist, they haven’t contacted us.

We tend to forget just how incredibly huge the universe is. Our own galaxy alone is approximately 100,000 light years across. Consider the amount of time we have had the capability is transmitting radio messages (a little over a century). Assuming the very first radio messages were powerful enough to reach out into space (they weren’t), that means the furthest our signals will have reached traveling at the speed of light would be just over 100 light years. Anything further away from us than that will not have heard a single peep out of us. Also consider that the galaxy contains something on the order of 250 BILLION stars. Another civilization would have to have an antenna pointed directly at us (statistically a virtual impossibility), be able to tease an intelligent signal out of all of the noise, have a technology compatible enough with our own to be able to detect and decode such a signal, and they would have to be within 100 light years of our location in order to hear anything at all. PLUS it would take another 100 years to send a reply.

ET may not even know we’re here to contact.

Even aliens wouldn’t wanna abduct you, Lucy.

ET, phone Lucy….

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.-Calvin

I’ll have to remember that argument.

They tried to, but they didn’t have a nickel.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that they’re avoiding us like the plague.

Rather the reverse, I’d wager.

“… pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space, ‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.”

- Monty Python

Of course there are. And, they’re very, very hungry.

If anyone’s wondering, we are skipping nine days ahead with today’s strip, which originally appeared on January 2, 1973. That’s because Christmas in 1972 fell on a Monday, and I suspect that they’re saving that strip for Wednesday.

Or, maybe they’ve yet to discover faster-than-light travel, too.

Yeah and besides Lucie, they took a look around the world and hauled ass! Before leaving, I heard one say to another do you believe what you see here. I was told that a little over 200,000 years ago their was nothing but monkeys living here! Things sure haven’t changed much! Except most are wearing clothes. Good thing!

Well Lucy, one day you’ll come to understand that you are not “all that” and a bag of chips – or NOT.

Sorry, Lucy, but you aren’t even one sixty-fourth as important as you believe. If there are people in outer space,m their not contacting you proves how intelligent they are.

Lucy’s view are simple. Sometimes we need to think that way.