Our instruments can see back to the big bang.

Quantum communcations are not instantaneous in practice. Otherwise they would violate causality.

Comms can travel at the speed of light. I myself hardly ever go downstairs, nevermind outside. This doesn’t mean that the outside world might as well not exist, since I can badger people over the internet even if they live in China. Imagine aliens sending us blueprints for awesome technology, great plays they’ve…

The Fermi Paradox can be summed up as :

“But why do people think we’d have it figured out so soon?”

I saw some crazy 3 hour version of it. Loved it actually. But then I loved Barry Lyndon.