The article does a good job of explaining some of the numbers, but it’s important to remember just how large they are. To a spacefaring civilization a million

The article does a good job of explaining some of the numbers, but it’s important to remember just how large they are. To a spacefaring civilization a million years might be the human equivalent of a decade. The sad truth is that intelligent humans (enough to think and act on thoughts of space travel) have barely existed on the cosmic timeline, and likely won’t live long enough to know the answer to whether or not we’re alone. Not because of some romanticized fermi gate paradoxical reasoning, but simply because we ran out of time.