More Space

On the subject of space, there's a great article in the Guardian today about how even if there is life elsewhere in the universe, AND even if they are looking for us, the universe is just so freaking huge that they still wouldn't have found us. The article notes that one scientists calculations put the number at around 10 billion years to search only 4% of the inhabitable part of this galaxy.

Yeah, and considering we know about how old the galaxy IS, there just hasn't been enough time to elapse for us to make contact with anyone. Which leads me back to my thought that we are probably at, relatively, the beginning of time rather than somewhere in the meaty, juicy, middle part.