Quote Originally Posted by Rota View Post
There are miniscule odds of a planet being capable of supporting life, and miniscule odds of life developing on those planets, and miniscule odds of that life developing an intelligent species, and miniscule odds of that intelligence creating a civilization capable of space flight.
Then there is the utterly incomprehensible, huge, vast, enormity of space.
(probably deserves more "big" adjectives)

The odds of our two civilizations meeting are so astronomically small, I don't know how to begin to describe it.
But it's not like there are only two civilizations in the whole universe. There might be millions!!! Which means, for example, planet A might contact planet C, while planet B might contact Planet D, and so on. So, if there were a serious amount of civilizations in the universe, we're bound to find at least ONE civilization. If we're lucky, we may even find two!

But, as I said, if it's so easy to find a civilization in space, why haven't we found one yet? Project S.E.T.I (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Inteligence) is searching for some right now, but they've only found space dust and nebulas. Plus, they're also starting to lose some funds, and if they're broke, no more satalites for them. which means there will be an even lower chance to find intellegent lifeforms other than humans.