Comic #3213: 2014-03-05

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Panel 1:
Person 1: "We could not solve the Fermi Paradox."
Person 2: "If there are aliens out there, how come we haven't heard from them?"

Panel 2:
"So we set up a listening apparatus."

Panel 3:
Person 1: "One day, there was a signal."
Person 1: "It's… a schematic… for a giant machine…"

Panel 4:
Person 2: "The massive machine was a labyrinth of complexity."
Person 1: "I don't get it. 93 percent of the parts seem redundant."

Panel 5:
Person 2: "And yet, on completion, it whirred to life with the touch of a button."

Panel 6:
Person 2: "There is no longer a Fermi Paradox."
Person 1: "Wait! That's the solution!"
Person 1: "Oh, mother fu—"

Panel 7:
Person 2: "Because no one is left to be perplexed."

Panel 8:
(Illustration of Earth, dark background with the Earth pictured in red and blue.)

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