Population growth compounds, though. Once you've colonized a million worlds, the next million would come in a fraction of the time of the first million, and the next 2 million in less time than that, then 4 million in the same time as before, etc. Like grains of rice on a chessboard. Totally feasible to fill a galaxy if FTL travel is achieved.

More likely - FTL is impossible so each species is stuck in their own solar system.

Looks like another journalist just finished reading The Dark Forest

are you crabs yet? 🦀 🦀 🦀

Baseless speculation. Might as well say demons are in the earth hiding.

Or maybe we actually are the first interstellar civilisation. With features like Jupiter and especially our giant ass moon seeming to be pretty rare we still don't know what it really takes to make a planet habitable. Let alone habitable in such a way that it creates intelligent life.

One day we'll be inundated with billions of light years worth of "are you there?" Signals.

I think they are talking but their voices are actually just too high for us to hear. This is why some dogs can be so skittish at times, because they can hear the aliens saying really mean things about us behind our backs

Shhh.... They're listening!

Shh! They'll hear us.