[Torplexed]

Human civilization is 10,000ish years old. Technological human civilization is 500 years old. High technology is maybe 60 years old. Life is 3 billion years old. If I were to project our advancement, I can imagine us as a species remaining barely comprehensible and recognizable to our present day selves for another 1 to 2,000 years, tops. Maybe aliens that have been around for billions of years don't find us remotely interesting or worth their while. We do occasionally send biologists out to prod deep-sea-vent creatures, but far from every deep-sea-vent creature gets a visit from a biologist.

Since we're talking about contact between civilizations, at some level of mutual comprehensibility, not contact between apes and angels, I would say that the chances of conversations with aliens are a bit more remote when the timescales are considered.