I'M SIGNIFICANT!
...screamed the dust speck.
with apologies to Bill Waterson
We know not of other interplanetary civilisations.
Could they know about us?
If they did, surely we would know about them,
and we would enslave some
to be experimented on
and we would shoot some
because they frightened us
and we would scare some away
as they misinterpret our greetings
and we would bore some
as we are an inferior species.
So
Do they even want to know about us?
Is it just their paranoia keeping them away?
No. They do not know about us,
and we are
forgotten.
We are all forgotten,
in the depths of space.