[pdimitar]

All true.

(My opinion on where are all the aliens is that collectively speaking, we're little more than ordinary jungle beasts with baseball caps (quote by George Carlin) and we're monitored and evaluated on when is a good time for a first contact. Let's just say we're easily at least a millennia away from that point.)

My point in my parent comment was that the overall schema of assertions like "breakthroughs are incoming" and "we just need to do X" are overly optimistic. So I gave an exaggerated example to demonstrate that point.