billions-and-billions
Original: billions-and-billions on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with brown hair speaks directly to the reader.
Woman: There are 200 billion galaxies in the universe, with 200 billion stars in each of them. Each star is orbited by half a dozen planets. In all this space, only Earth harbors life. We are alone in a vast empty cosmos. And yet, I share a bathroom with two roommates.
Caption below panel:
This is the most distressing implication of the Rare Earth Hypothesis.
Votey:
Hand-lettered text on a white panel:
This is the best argument for increasing the budget for NASA.
A woman with brown hair speaks directly to the reader.
Woman: There are 200 billion galaxies in the universe, with 200 billion stars in each of them. Each star is orbited by half a dozen planets. In all this space, only Earth harbors life. We are alone in a vast empty cosmos. And yet, I share a bathroom with two roommates.
Caption below panel:
This is the most distressing implication of the Rare Earth Hypothesis.
Votey:
Hand-lettered text on a white panel:
This is the best argument for increasing the budget for NASA.
Alt text
A brown-haired woman addresses the reader, looking increasingly weary. She says: "There are 200 billion galaxies in the universe, with 200 billion stars in each of them. Each star is orbited by half a dozen planets. In all this space, only Earth harbors life. We are alone in a vast empty cosmos. And yet, I share a bathroom with two roommates." A caption reads: "This is the most distressing implication of the Rare Earth Hypothesis." The joke contrasts the vast emptiness of space with the petty annoyance of sharing a bathroom. The votey (bonus panel) shows ornate hand-lettered text reading: "This is the best argument for increasing the budget for NASA."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.