re: If the government comes out and claims we have evidence life outside of Earth

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We’re (humans on Earth) not even a blip in time.
How anyone can think there isn’t life “out there” is just plain silly.

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Though I agree with you, I must point out that TIME is the rate limiting factor here.

A civilization can exist for millions of years, and then be wiped out.

Galactic time scale makes discovery of another civilization less likely (even if it exists... and yes, I think there are others).


You aren't just looking for a grain of sand on the beach or a needle in a haystack. You are looking for a specific grain of sand on a specific beach of a specific planet at a specific second on a specific day of a specific year amongst all the millenia when it exists, etc.

And then to talk about proximity and contact... yikes.

But I agree, just talking math.