Brilliant answer! It is absolute nonsense to use any kind of statistic to answer that question. It is really only wishful thinking that lead us to use such vague arguments. If the wish was that we are alone in the universe you have several good arguments in your post that shows it is the "most possible" situation. All in all what it shows is that we still know very very little about these topics and that we need to continue to do some serious research on the subject instead of shooting around with almost religious wishes and guesses using our so called "logical common sense".
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Brilliant answer! It is absolute nonsense to use any kind of statistic to answer that question. It is really only wishful thinking that lead us to use such vague arguments. If the wish was that we are alone in the universe you have several good arguments in your post that shows it is the "most possible" situation. All in all what it shows is that we still know very very little about these topics and that we need to continue to do some serious research on the subject instead of shooting around with almost religious wishes and guesses using our so called "logical common sense".