[Udo]

If it's uniqueness you're concerned about, there are a lot of different parameters that describe habitable worlds and even more to describe the history of a civilization. Odds are, what most civilizations experience is unique to them; but I too believe there are likely to be many similarities, too.

Our inability to see and interact with other civilizations - even within the relatively small neighborhood of our own galaxy - is frustrating, and somewhat of a logical conundrum as described by the Fermi Paradox. Whatever the factors preventing us and others from making contact are, and I think it's likely a combination of several instead of one big filter, I hope we can leave them behind at some point and join up with the other people out there.

When I look at bigger parts of the universe, I feel inspired. The universe is not small and limited, it's vast and full of possibilities. Odds are we're not singular but in good company, and we have a lot still to discover and explore. What we do and know is unique and meaningful, yet at the same time it's not all there is.

[innino]

Thanks for that. I do hope you're right. The prospect of eternal isolation is not a pretty one.