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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 7765872" data-attributes="member: 710">Given the vast size of the universe, it seems unlikely that there is really only one time life developed, and that only one time "intelligent" life developed.However, it might be incredibly far away so we never take notice of each other.So even if technically we aren't alone, we might still feel very alone.As I grew older, I became more and more skeptical that FTL travel is possible, and I am also becoming more and more skeptical that something like a generation ship that could travel for hundreds or thousands of years becomes possible, or that we could send detectable signals for communication across interstellar distances. So it might be that we'll never get to meet or speak with anyone. But what if space is finite? Because I seem to remember that space is finite, but expands over time, and if time is infinite - there isn't anything stopping the expansion, it will never stop expanding. But space will also never be finite. And with infinite time but finite space, there is a lot of time frames that life could form and die out again - without it ever happening at the same time. So maybe there will be thousands of Morrus - but they will also be separated in time across trillions of years.So maybe there was or there will be life out there. And we'll never notice, because we existed either before or after it. We'd still be alone.</blockquote>