That’s the toy, chuckles, and it was blue.
Climb off your high hobbyhorse.

Me: That’s the grossest life cycle I have ever heard of.
Nature: Hold my beer ...

They’re all lying. They are implying that there is some cohesive thought process going on in the creation of this show, whereas it is abundantly apparent that they are just sitting around, idly stroking themselves until someone bothers to leaf through one of the comics and shouts, “That’d be way cool! Let’s do…

So he’s, like, a Furry?

And that is why you fail.

Good try, baby. You came soooo close to civil, you could probably smell it.
And good luck with that spontaneous combustion thing.

Such language, child. You kiss your mother with that brain?
Seriously, don’t be so didactic. This is theoretical at best, and your pronouncements of relative likelihood notwithstanding, no one knows why Uranus and Venus have unusual revolutions and rotations.
As for “without being too strongly influenced” by the inner…

So there are no extra-solar rocky planets?
 Call off SETI; it’s a freaking waste of energy.

How do we know that Venus did not arrive at its present location after an impact with Uranus.
Occam’s Razor is not a toy, but this seems possible, given the oddness of the two planets’ rotation. Uranus also has a wildly different axial alignment, with an axis that is almost perpendicular to its orbit, which could be…

“Sheeple”

TBF, they did designate a species from a single individual.

Hot air balloons are incredibly flimsy, but hold their shape in stiff breezes on Earth. They move with the wind. At 55 km altitude, there wouldn’t be any obstructions, so an [Earth] air-filled blimp zipping along at 225 kph would be just fine.

“... it’s believed that the cause was a violent collision with something.”
Venus?

“Merge”? Know what I mean? Huh? Nudge-nudge, wink-wink.
The great Space Gasm, right?
Huh?

Inconceivable!

A regimen of erythromysin is strongly indicated in cases of heart cockles. With aggressive treatment and plenty of luck, you may recover.

“My Dinner with Deadpool”
Could we get Wallace Shawn involved?