Maybe not...
You're stating the 'act of faith' in the large numbers fallacy. There are larger numbers still. Maybe life is a 1 in 10exp100exp100 occuran as some biologists maintain. If so, there is no life anywhere or anywhen. It was a fluke.
Or, stable solar systems for billlions of years and stable planetary ecospheres with chance flukes producing intelligence are also rare.
Or a society that values technology and exploration rarer still. Look at most nations today re: space exploration, including the USA. Look at China's decision to forego world exploration half a millenia ago.
Then again, given the time scales of the 10exp10 year old galaxy it could be that any 'others' are so many MILLIONS and more of years ahead of us such that they are trandest into forms that nnot recognize. They may be in alternate universes, whatever.
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- The HUDF picture (10,000 galaxies....)
- "If you take a grain of sand and hold it up at arm's length, that's the amount of sky being covered,"
- Spectacular! A universe beyond human imagination... (n/t)
- re: They're alive! (n/t)
- My God! It's full of stars!!! (n/t)
- "If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space..." (n/t)
- re: The HUDF picture (10,000 galaxies....)