Is There Any Kind of Life in Other Galaxies?

There are reasons to believe that, as you are saying, the copernacum principle, there's no reason to bele ther's anything special, unique about the earth. We see no evidence for any kind of technology or communication signals in our galaxy. And yes, you can speculate about why that might be. Maybe a on o keep him quiet. But i would love to receive some kind of intererestral message from an intelligente alien civilization until what happens is proved wrong.