If we're merely average, we're already ahead of half of them.
The Fermi Paradox : if the universe has zillions of inhabited planets(the Drake Equation = SETI)how come we don't hear them on radio wavelengths? We've been sending out radio/TV/microwave for almost a century now, an expanding spherical wavefront 100 lightyears in radius, and yet we hear NOTHING, how come? Is it a "local-yokel" problem, or is there a deeper reason?