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Sol.

like the other options the emoji movie cats disaster movie and a live leak compilation so i guess spider-man 3 is pretty good

Of course the last panel could actually apply to two planets

I'll take mini-neptune. I can bring a boat

Wait until there are a million planets in the database...

And that last panel can be amended with a side note..."For now".

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Seems like finding habitable planets is difficult. Real shame that taking better care of the one we know can sustain us is unthinkable.

i was about to be pedantic and say earth isn't an exoplanet but luckily randall is exactly as pedantic as me and just said "planets"

Whelp, that covers 4 stars, only a billion more available with FTL drive. Maybe we should get better at understanding the space time thingies before we find interstellar buddies🤷🏼‍♂️

Class, ‘M’.

Interestingly enough, this from @nattyover.bsky.social just ran a couple of days ago: gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/s...

Or they just swim all over the place. Who said they needed solid land? Wait- are we looking for life or specifically intelligent life?

While lower gravity does seem to cause health problems and make it hard to hold onto a native atmosphere, that's beside the point. The aforementioned comic listed 1 earth mass as a criteria for matching.

That's only used as a carpark right now

We'd really better get up to speed on terraforming Earth, so it'll have Earth-like conditions in a century or so.

This is how I play Elite Dangerous.

What are the odds a form of life happen to have JUST the right traits of intelligence, access to glass, and dependence on light to see the sky, to have designed telescopes specifically? I submit the telescopic principle; that the universe favors conditions that create telescopes.

Oh I meant more generally that it's habitable to the life you find habitating it, not that it'd be habitable to US.

wait until some practical jokester launches a telescope to crash into venus

Maybe we should looks for ants. 100% of the ones we found ants on are habitable.

And I thought I was overdoing it looking at houses in Canada...

I have some more data on that last one. It's already inhabited by a bunch of dimwits who are rapidly making it less habitable with the greenhouse effect.

The good news is the most habitable planet is the easiest one to reach, how lucky was that?

Alas, that one planet orbiting Sol has a significantly increased risk of bear attack. Some caution is required.

New House Hunters Series?

And that last one has a limited shelf life

it’s been settled by a hostile species

gotta wait for the NGRST data to come in

like, yeah guys. you are very smart. we should just solve global warming right now and do literally nothing else. also check out this sick basket i bought for all my eggs

Title text: "Atmospheric transmission spectroscopy has revealed that the sunsets from the observatory are really pretty." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3311#Transcript

Of course, it is always "habitable to Earth-like life" because we do yet know of any other kind. Yet.