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You have to wonder if we aren't just confirming what the Great Filter is. There may not be any space faring civilizations.
Seriously, that’s what I’ve been thinking recently - that we’re hitting the self-destruction theory of the Great Filter.
It's not a bug, it's a feature. It takes too much energy to simulate multiple space faring civilizations at once in our universe. First come, first served and I guess there's something out there....