What puzzles me is that people always (or nearly always) seem to assume that ETs would be vastly ahead of us, technologically speaking. Why? Couldn't it possibly be that there aren't any species who have survived long enough to develop interstellar travel, and the ones that are left are too busy poisoning their own planets to bother with starships? Sort of like, you know, us.
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