All those billions of worlds going to waste, lifeless, barren?
How could we hope to understand the science of a civilization a thousand years ahead of us?
Ellie Arroway: Hey Dad? Ted Arroway: Yeah. Ellie Arroway: You think there's people on other planets? Ted Arroway: I don't know sparks. But I guess I'd say if it is just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant...Considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it’s extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.