There are two possible answers that could emerge from our search for alien life either we find intelligent life or we only come to more and more silence.
Some of us remain hopeful in its presence and others of us find it rapidly becoming stifling. We receive a signal, or we don't; either way, we come to an important realization about the place of humans in the universe.
Not many people want to believe that humans are alone, not many people do believe so, considering the data from our telescopes reveals likely millions of stars clumped with habitable planets.
And yet despite those odds in favor of something being out there, we're still empty-handed.
Where, indeed, is everybody?