The universe has run ten billion trillion habitable-zone experiments, so we are the first technological civilisation only if every single one of them failed.

And so, what we found was basically that there have been 10 billion trillion habitable zone planets in the universe. And what that means is that those are 10 billion trillion experiments that have been run. And the only way that we're this whole process from a biogenesis to a civilization has occurred is if every one of those experiments failed.