>tfw when you realize that the universe is so massive that there should be at least one civilization that is more or less on the same technological level as us has sent a message on just the right time for us to receive it in those 50+ years that we've been scanning the skies yet we've received jack shit

This rules out any theory about messages that we are not smart enough to receive, a great filter or any theory that assumes the aliens are more advanced. Honestly god is the only reasonable answer, a deity that purposefully put us in this universe and only he has the ability to create life