[nly]

...or the intelligent life in the universe is so beyond us that, even though they have the capability to communicate, or even visit, they don't see us as worth contacting. Perhaps them talking to us would be like us talking to a tree stump or a bucket of plankton.

Perhaps it's not even a conscious decision on their part. Perhaps all our achievements, everything we are, isn't recognized amongst alien-kind beyond a short 1 line entry in an alien log file,. Perhaps their monitoring system detects and discards a thousand worthless blips like us every day.

What if we're just not that special