Matt Walsh

Those factors together make seeing one really unlikely or hearing one or getting any glimpse of one at all.

And for us, the amount of time we spent looking for alien life or potentially able to receive communication is basically 30 minutes.

I mean, more like 30 seconds in the proportion to the age and size of the universe.

I mean, that's the other thing too.

Earth could have received contact 10,000 years ago.

We wouldn't know it, right?

So we've only been searching and listening in this infinite expanse for a very, very short amount of time.

We're still a single lifetime, right?

The entire space age has only lasted for less than a lifetime.

One lifetime.

Okay.

The president of the United States was 10 years old when the first satellite was launched.

My dad is older than the oldest man-made object currently orbiting the Earth, which is a U.S.

satellite that is out of commission and just space junk now.

But the point, like, we just started.

We just started doing this.

That's what's so absurd about these people, and this goes to a larger point.

These people will say, oh, we've been going to space forever.

Why?

We haven't even made it past the moon yet.