[[Two characters are talking.]]
Left: The Fermi Paradox keeps getitng worse. If planets are common, where
is
everybody?
Right: Imagine you're a SCUBA diver looking at the ocean floor.
Right: You know there's a fish there, but you can't see it. Why?
[[The panel zooms out, ground dark beneath the characters.]]
Left: Maybe the fish looks like sand.
Right: Yeah ...
[[The panel zooms out further, the entire Earth visible against the blackness of space.]]
Right: ... And what would that tell you about the ecosystem?
[[The Earth is silent.]]
[[The Earth exits, stage left.]]
[[This panel is completely black.]]
[[A shark enters from stage right.]]
{{Title text: [Astronomer peers into telescope] [Jaws theme begins playing]}}
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