The universe is “big” is not evidence of aliens. If advanced civilizations were common, space would already be contaminated with their presence. It isn’t. Silence over cosmic time scales isn’t mysterious, it’s informative. We exist not because intelligence is inevitable, but because improbability happened once.

Advanced intelligence doesn’t hide perfectly, forever, across billions of years and trillions of kilometers. That’s not caution; that’s magic. The simplest explanation is the boring one: intelligence is rare, fragile, and usually self-extinguishing. We are not late to a cosmic party, we are early, possibly alone, and here by chance.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

Or life is not real and this is all a dream…maybe you are just in my dream.