https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

The Drake equation is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.[1][2]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life compared to the apparently high a priori likelihood of its existence.[1][2] As a 2015 article put it, "If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now."[3]

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> It might sound far fetched but the universe is highly believed to be stretched out to infinity?

it's kind of hard to speculate about the number of fish in the ocean when all you have is a half drop of water.

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The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw

In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it.

20 years later, consider what JWST has done.

Hubble is cute little toy.

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even if ET picks up on the first ring... in 24,950 years, it's going to be another 25,000 until we hear back.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

The message was aimed at the current location of M13, about 25,000 light years from Earth, because M13 was a large and relatively close collection of stars that was available in the sky at the time and place of the ceremony.