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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zerovoid" data-source="post: 290780" data-attributes="member: 283">Re: What I mean....Umm, you know how big the galaxy is, right?  Its more or less 100,000 light years across.  Without faster than light travel(which does not exist according to current science), no more than a tiny fraction of species in our galaxy could possibly have recieved our radio signals and visited us.This makes a little more sense.  The universe has been around for a long time, and an alien species that evolved at basically the same time as us in the cosmological sense could have already had millions of years to colonize the galaxy.  So, most habitable planets would probably have been settled by now.  Oh well, maybe the aliens have lots of great technology like us, but they just choose to sit on their collective ass like humanity does, and have no ambition to expand.I used to think it was inevitable that we would begin interstellar colonization, but given the way NASA is dragging its feet on the Mars mission, and how people don't care, we'll probably just nuke our planet and die in obscurity.  Maybe most races do this.  Damn, that sucks.</blockquote>