Last option is the only correct one , it’s legitimately a no brainer

Through the sheer magnitude of really just 0.00000000001 luck moments we’ve had just in order to last this long , those odds are nothing compared to the odds needed to have a truly empty universe

We’re not even in the caliber of traveling ourself far out or even touching any other planets ourselves , and as sad as it seems , within our life time we definitely won’t find life unless there’s a massive jump that trumps over every other single achievement ever human to have ever existed has ever had , combined

It’s far more of a case of not being able too and definitely not needing too

Life would be at many milestones by now , be it barely tiny organisms or truly space faring utopias , but the universe is far too big to truly look into many signs of life , especially with time dilation and shit

Almost everything we’ve seen in great light years distances is not at the state we’ve looked at it from

Black holes , novas , etc , shit we’ve seen , we’re seeing them from millions if not billions of years ago , easily