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Silence. Full, unnerving silence. Regardless of a long time of searches for any type of life, clever or in any other case, on the market within the cosmos, the Universe has however one message for us: Nobody is answering.

However that solitude just isn’t a curse. The nice expanse of the empty heavens above us doesn’t carry with it an unimaginable burden of loneliness. It begets a freedom—a freedom to discover, to be curious, to surprise, to broaden.

The Universe is ours for the taking.