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Or…… what if there isn’t any other “intelligent” life out there.  What if this is it
We are a drive thru Safari- UAP sightings have alien families laughing >

How sad would it be if we are actually the first intelligent life in the universe? >

Very uplifting actually, the first attempt at something usually sucks, shows there's lot of room for improvement for the universes next attempt. >

This is so unexpectedly optimistic, and very true >

If you're driving cross-country, you don't stop in Bumblefuck, Missouri. Makes sense. >

One of the better theories about aliens I have beard is that they really do use us as a tourist spot. >

Nice beard. >

ITT: People that didn't read the article. >

think about it for a sec... even if the nearest intelligent life that COULD see us. is probably seeing us a few thousand years ago.. and well.. we weren't exactly doing great back then.. making shit out of rocks, no technology, maybe some fire.. but hell even natural things can make fire.. so yah, we were just basic farmers and explorers.. with some basic communication skills.. nothing more. no advance civilization would take there time on us at this point.. we probably won't see any interested Aliens for a good 500 years or more.. WHY? because at this rate they could see the advancements we made over the last 500 years and then project where about we are now, and our intelligence level.. enough to try and esblish contact.. and this is assuming they are in a few thousand lightyears of us and have noticed us in the last 100 years (hopefully due to atomic bomb or something that might move faster than light but we haven't discovered it.. like gravity waves or something) >


think about it for a sec... even if the nearest intelligent life that COULD see us. is probably seeing us a few thousand years ago

we've had radio for a 100 years give or take.
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impossible for any signal ever transmitted on this planet to be more than 100 light years away (give or take)
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If biotic planets are common, putative advanced civilizations may send probes not to any planet showing biosignatures, but rather to planets with technosignatures, such as radio broadcasts. >

true, but they can still scan planets in the region and such the good old telescope way.. assuming they have super-masive awesome ones in space that make JWTS look like a baby.. then they could just see us and where we are at that time period. >

But they still can't do that faster than light travels. Right now, only a civilization with 100 LY radius of us could see us and that assumes our earliest radio signals haven't attenuated into the cosmic background radiation. 
The galaxy is roughly 50kLY in radius. That's just under 8 billion square LY, assuming you're talking a perfectly flat galaxy for a moment. In 1000 years, any radio signals we've sent could never cover more than 3 million square LYs - about 0.0375% of the galaxy. 
It doesn't matter how advanced their technology is, unless there is a way for particles to both move faster than light and convey information. If they're relying on light, we won't be visible at a distance to anyone in any kind of meaningful time frame. Its like finding a dinosaur fossil, and then expecting to find a live T-Rex somewhere. >

I'm not talking about RADIO WAVES man.. who cares if they can hear us or not. I'm talking about light waves.. literally LIGHT will be seen from our planet as any object that reflects light, and that light the reflected off us or emmetted from us, will be traveling at the speed of light.. and we've been around long enough for things to see us a few thousand LY away.. just like if we look at any planets in our telescopes, that's not RADIO WAVES we're looking at man.. it's Lightwaves, and it's a few Light minutes old or light hours old compared to when it left that planet, but things further away are light years and so on.. am i missing something here? I'mjust saying that they (aliens) could be looking at a bunch of dino's or they could be looking at our ansestors form liek the early 100BC time frame and we're just not that interesting to come and check out yet.. (assuming they even checked our planet out anyway from a distance).. then there's the question of whether they even have tech to visit us so far away, even in our own galaxy.. >

I would posit that there are very distinct signs of a lack of intelligence here. >

Posting that to r/science is some probably unintentional, nontheless high level, trolling. >

It’s not saying that we’re dumb, it’s saying that we’ve only been smart for half a second in the grand scheme of our species existence. 
Let’s say that we’re the only intelligent life in the Milky Way, and there’s intelligent life in the closest Galaxy to us, the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, which is 25,000 light years away. If an alien on a planet in that Galaxy were to use a telescope to see us, they wouldn’t see an intelligent species, sending out radio waves trying to contact them. They would see primates who just figured out to use bags made out of vines. >

I don't think people even read abstracts tbh lmao (myself included, I skimmed it.)
Only skimmed it because I have been agreeing with this theory for soo so long now lol. A species capable of interstellar travel attempting to contact us at this point in our global development would be like me trying to strike up a conversation with a stink bug. More trouble than it's worth to understand us, probably (if this theory is "the" truth lol)