Over the last half century we’ve launched around 100 telescopes into space more than 20 of them are diligently scanning the universe right now at the same time a few dozen radio observatories keep listening for any signals from space and as a result we’ve received mind-blowing pictures of distant stars and galaxies and mesmerizing ambient sounds coming from exotic objects but there’s one main thing we can’t hear or see traces of other intelligent civilizations that actively explore outer space this may have two possible explanations where either absolutely alone in the infinite Universe with no one else within billions of light years around or humanity is just about to run into highly developed aliens and it’s hard to predict what consequences this encounter may have are you anxious already today we’ll try to find out which of the answers to the great silence mystery is closest to the truth
