> Either life is virtually non-existent thus far, virtually always suicidal, or discovering it is tremendously unlikely. Or they tend to sublime [0], or advanc

> Either life is virtually non-existent thus far, virtually always suicidal, or discovering it is tremendously unlikely. Or they tend to sublime [0], or advanced societies prefer to live in virtual reality, or they tend towards being enlightened enough not to mess with species in an earlier stage of development, or they're not very interested in us, or we've been unlucky/lucky to have avoided discovery so far, or FTL is possible but can only be exceeded slightly, or FTL is possible but requires billions of years of technological development to achieve, or FTL requires a prohibitive amount of energy to travel at longer distances, etc., etc. [0] https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sublimed https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sublimed