User blog comment:Elseweyr/Mass Effect bubble soon punctured?/@comment-8419211-20130725213545/@comment-9753034-20130726073730

Meeting aliens is unfortunately about as likely as Charon being a mass relay, which is more or less what contact would require anyway (teleportation). If we've got the laws of physics right, we'd probably be extinct before even a signal sent from an alien species would make it all the way to our system. To think we could survive here, with limited resources and technology, not bothering to find out as much as we can about ourselves and life everywhere, or exploring new possibilities for humanity as a species--those are short-term solutions for you.