[UCANSEE2]

it's just that the distances are so great that the odds of meeting another race are just immense.

And there is a reason.

we need to start figuring out how to live here without killing each other or the future is going to be a miserable place to live.

That's the reason.

[The Louiswu]

...but it ain’t gonna happen with the current technology of chemical rockets and anything else that might work is generation(s) away...