Reading such articles I always wonder: what if, by some weird chance of fate, we're among the firsts or even the first to be "out there"? Highly improbable and

Reading such articles I always wonder: what if, by some weird chance of fate, we're among the firsts or even the first to be "out there"? Highly improbable and whatnot - sure. But we'll never know and neither will we ever be able to give up our search either.