I expect that we will make contact, and that it will be unlike anything we have ever experienced. I always have believed it, ever since I was a little girl. Meanwhile, across the sprawling National Center of the Universe Campus, in the dusty recesses of the Extraterrestrial Theory Building, Search Co-ordinator and ruggedly handsome Phd. Maybe there's some green slime out there. We need to accept that we are too advanced to find suitable companionship anywhere in the universe.
People act like it's heresy.
They get uncomfortable. But this is science and we shouldn't take it personally. We have to look at the facts. But what you're talking about would force us to accept a whole new set of expectations. I know you're feeling down right now.