Sci Fight - We should search for life out there

Sci Fight is a raucous night where scientists and comedians debate serious issues in a thoroughly silly manner.

This round's topic: We should search for life out there.

Since humanity became conscious of a universe stretching out far beyond our own little turquoise home, we’ve repeatedly wondered, are we really alone? Or is there life out there? And; have we offended it?

Statistically speaking, after 13.5 billion years and with 200 billion trillion stars in the universe, it seems impossibly unlikely that life hasn’t evolved more than once.

So: in the famous words of Fermi, then where are they?

Possibly in order to justify their ongoing tenure; SETI employees and astrophysicists have developed increasingly imaginative (read: desperate) theories as to why we haven’t been contacted by aliens just yet.