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We just have not been advanced long enough to hit "The Great Filter." Either we will blow each other up with nukes, unleash extinction level climate change, screw up the oceans to the point the whole ecosystem collapses, we all get super-ebola and cannot recover, or we stop exploring space and get wiped out by something the size of Mt. Everest hitting us at 45,000 miles an hour. Or, we pull our shit together and stumble upon the physics that the other intelligent people use to communicate, figure out fast space travel or any of the other ways to not kill ourselves off and eventually meet up with whatever is out there. Honestly? Either outcome will be exciting to watch.