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by sven_8127642 826 days ago
There's certainly intelligent life out there. It definitely is horrifying that in the current age there's been no contact with, as you mentioned, billions of years of time spanned across the galaxy and billions of systems out there.

You also have to think that we're occupying such a small portion of our species existence. There's hundreds of thousands of years of human history we just have zero record of. During that course of time, we have no way of knowing if there WERE attempts of advanced life to contact our planet/species, only for them to find (presumed) low intelligence or no means of advanced communications.

Maybe we'll be fortunate enough to experience whispers of proof in our lifetimes, but I imagine it'll be in the next few thousands of years if we can manage to remain relevant technology wise before CC cooks us.

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> There's certainly intelligent life out there… > Maybe we'll be fortunate enough to experience whispers of proof in our lifetimes

Certainty without evidence is faith. There’s nothing wrong with that exactly, I just like to point it out for the crowd, that may not include you, who judge other faiths for the same unavoidable human behavior that they blatantly and hypocritically indulge in.