Are we the only one's in the Cosmos? I bet we are and here is why.

Remember all that talk,  20 years ago,  of "billions and billions" of habitable planets?  Life on another planet was not only a possibility,  but a mathematical probability.

Haystack 37-meter radio telescope
with a cutaway view of it in its radome.

With all that in mind,  I never understood why, if there is life on other planets and "they" are intelligent enough to communicate via some sort of technology,  why did we not "hear them talking" the moment we started "listening" with our radio/telescope?  I mean,  if there are billion and billions of colonies "out there,"  surely we are not the most advanced or the most intelligent or the oldest of all life forms in the the  universe.  But,  as far as picking up intelligent "conversation" with those radio telescopes we have positioned around the world,  that  has not proven to be anymore a monument to intelligent conversation than the chatter we hear at a "yo-mama" concert.

And,  after all these years of looking and hoping and dreaming,  scientists have found only four possible planets.  The closest is one called 667Cc.  It is four times the size of earth,  but is the right distance from its sun, so,  of course,  there is life somewhere on that planet, right??  

I know, the thinking is this: we need to find younger planets just in case our system goes up in smoke.  "Humans" need somewhere to go when the Sun decides to light things up,  in our solar system.

Problem:  667Cc is 22 light years from here.  And that's the good news.  Some star systems are billions of light years from Earth.  Good news is always balanced out by bad news,  it seems, and that is true in this instance.

In case you are planning on traveling to 667Cc anytime soon,  you had better pack a mean lunch.  Understand that a "light year" is 5,865,896,000,000 or [in this case] 5.865 trillion miles from here, and that is one light year.   If we could travel at a mile a second (3,600 miles per hour) and not run out of fuel,  our new home-away-from-home would be millions of years from here.

Which brings us to another issue  -  no telling what we would look like when we got there. Let's assume the fantasy of evolution as being true and tie that to the apparent "fact" that Mankind as we know "him" to be,  is just 145,000 years old. Of course,  I do not believe in evolutionary trends for species larger than a centimeter,  but most scientists do.  My next question, then,  is an important one:  million years from now,  what life form would step out onto that New World's stage?   If we are going to look anything like my neighbor's mother-in-law,  it ain't worth the expense, trust me.

Point of post:  if the Sun decides to die,  we are all sooooo screwed and we are all so very much alone.