Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 06, 2024

That is a very deep observation, my boy…..

This calls for Monty Python’s Galaxy Song: “So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,How amazingly unlikely is your birth;And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space,‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth!”

Isn’t it odd that this wisdom comes only from Calvin and Pogo?

It just because it takes several lightyears to gets to anywhere in this universe. Otherwise there woulda be lotsa aliens invasions already.

And they have better sense than to try to invade us.

Maybe they’ve seen us but avoided contact because they’re afraid that’ll just make things worse…

Both the U.S. and Europe have more forest than they did 100 years ago. Calvin (meaning Watterson) makes a false assumption.

Of course it wouldn’t try to contact us if it didn’t exist either.

And if they do come to Earth, i want them to take me away with them

Surely the sign of no intelligent life is that I was not elected.

Woo woo woo oh Africa!

That’s not it. They don’t want to contact us.

Amen.

Respect fellow Americans and they might show you respect back. Talking down to people gives you nothing but smugness.

Hobbes should have argued that really intelligent alien life would contact earth through tigers rather than through humans.

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

From the most recent news reports, the most telling reasons for avoiding contact with earth are the final results.