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<p>Mana: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 1377<br /> | date = June 4, 2014<br /> | title = Fish<br /> | image = fish.png<br /> | titletext = [Astronomer peers into telescope] [Jaws theme begins playing]<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> The Fermi Paradox is the contradiction that arises between the high likelihood of extraterrestrial life and the fact that no evidence for it has thus been found. Cueball and Megan are having a conversation regarding this, when Megan suggests that perhaps our search for extraterrestrial life is like looking at a patch of ocean floor looking for a fish, and that the fish is actually there, but we can't see it. She then goes on to ask why the fish would be hidden - i.e. camouflaged, and what it means about the remaining fish. The suggestion is that the fish would be hidden to avoid being eaten by predators, and perhaps the reason no extraterrestrial life is sending any sign of existence back is that they would be destroyed soon after they revealed their location. This follows in the comic, where an extraterrestrial predatory shark is coming to eat the Earth.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript}}<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}</div>

Mana https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1377:_Fish&diff=68791 2014-06-04T06:38:55Z

<p>Mana: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 1377<br /> | date = June 4, 2014<br /> | title = Fish<br /> | image = fish.png<br /> | titletext = [Astronomer peers into telescope] [Jaws theme begins playing]<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{The Fermi Paradox is the contradiction that arises between the high likelihood of extraterrestrial life and the fact that no evidence for it has thus been found. Cueball and Megan are having a conversation regarding this, when Megan suggests that perhaps our search for extraterrestrial life is like looking at a patch of ocean floor looking for a fish, and that the fish is actually there, but we can't see it. She then goes on to ask why the fish would be hidden - i.e. camouflaged, and what it means about the remaining fish. The suggestion is that the fish would be hidden to avoid being eaten by predators, and perhaps the reason no extraterrestrial life is sending any sign of existence back is that they would be destroyed soon after they revealed their location. This follows in the comic, where an extraterrestrial predatory shark is coming to eat the Earth. }}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript}}<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}</div>

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