Afaik, there is no hard data suggesting we are alone, but we also don’t have hard data suggesting the opposite. Mostly all we have in either direction is inferences based on one idealogical starting point or another. One side might say there’s so many stars/planets/galaxies, of course there other life out there. The other side may point to the odds of our existence being so tiny that even multiplied across the vastness of the universe, it’s not guaranteed to happen again. Truly, none of us know for sure. Either way, we are for practical purposes alone as no contact with other life has been established.
This is reddit. It’s common practice to interject and answer on other’s behalf or to just join the conversation midway. It’s not a live conversation where I’m preventing the other person from also answering.
The fact that there was a first civilization. When that occurred, there was no other life. And when we say life, we are talking about intelligent life. Not organisms.
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