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"That's the paradoxical part of the whole problem," he said. "There undoubtedly are a gigantic number of galaxies, and even more stars and planets. Even if life in the Universe was incredibly improbable with a chance of, say, one in a billion, that would still mean we'd have life on billions of planets due to the sheer number of stars and planets. Ditto for any other galaxy. With that being the case, why aren't we in constant contact with other lifeforms? That's the paradox."
"Perhaps, like someone said here, they don't want to be found?" Ryden replied, deep in thought.
"Or they're so completely foreign that we don't even recognizable their life form? Or perhaps they don't live on the surface of the planet? Maybe they're so small, or so big for that matter, that we don't even look at them as life, but as things that we can disregard?" she asked, sounding quite a little foolish even to her own ears.
But, honestly, there were probably thousands of explanations to this... If one just sat down and thought them through, perhaps they'd reach the most likely answer.
"Maybe they're already destroyed, or just a little bit away from being formed? What if they live VERY long lives, or insanely short ones?" What if, maybe, perhaps. She was starting to lose the meaning of the words, she'd said them so often.
"Maybe they've already been here." Now THERE'S a thought. Hmm.