/sci/ - Science & Math

>The universe is in it's infancy with less than .1% of it's total life span having occurred
>There is no evidence that there is any other intelligent life in the universe and the Femi paradox seems to show that we are the only ones in our galactic cluster and possibly even observable universe
Why is it so hard to believe that we are the first intelligent life? At first I thought it was unlikely but after thinking about it's by far the most likely explanation. How does it feel to know that humans are going to become "The old ones" that you always see in sci fi? How come science fiction doesn't seem to want to deal with this?