Anyone out there?

We had one of those beautiful starry nights last week, the kind that makes the sky so full of stars that you get dizzy looking. It is amazing when you think about the bigness and complexity of the universe. 
Most of the light we are seeing from those stars came about millions of years ago and we are just seeing it now. For that matter, a lot of the stars we see may not exist anymore. 

Then you can get a real brain cramp if you try to figure out where all of the universe ends. My finite mind just doesn’t grasp infinity. 

I guess the thing I ponder the most on nights like that is the question, “Is anyone else out there?” I really think we are being foolish to believe in the vast universe we are the only people around. 
Bill Watterson, the author of Calvin and Hobbes, once said that the surest sign that intelligent life exist else where in the universe is the fact it has never tried to contact us.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of truth to that thought. Just Say'n