The universe is infinite and continuously expanding. This cosmological scale, the monumental distance between celestial objects in deep space, would make it qui

The universe is infinite and continuously expanding. This cosmological scale, the monumental distance between celestial objects in deep space, would make it quite literally impossible for any extraterrestrial to feasibly be aware of or make contact with humans and vice versa. Even if we could travel beyond the speed of light, we'd still probably never make contact; there would be too many things that could go wrong. It's depressing to think about. Space limits everything, and is the simplest solution to the Fermi paradox (following Occam's razor). Source: I am a software engineer who works on cool space stuff