It's a question that's plagued mankind for some time: Is there anything else out there in the universe? This question in turn provides us a plethora of questions, essentially leading us to the Fermi Paradox – if there is something out there, due to the relative youth of humankind, they must be more advanced than we, so why have they not contacted us?
Alternatively, should we be trying to contact them? Active Seti [Search for extraterrestrial intelligence] programmes have been established in a bid to contact alien beings which must be somewhere out there in the vast universe, but these programmes have been greeted by cautiousness from scientists and civilians alike.
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