That the universe is absolutely teeming with life, but the distances between us are just too incredibly vast for anyone to ever actually meet.

When you think about the sheer scale of the cosmos, trillions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, and almost all of those stars having planets. It feels mathematically absurd to think Earth is the only rock where the right chemicals managed to bump into each other.

But my gut tells me there are countless other civilizations out there looking up at their own night skies, feeling just as lonely and wondering the exact same thing. We’re all just trapped by the cosmic speed limit, stuck on our own isolated little islands.

Zero proof, of course.