Unless I’m missing something, the chances of intelligent alien life seem pretty good. The next question is: How do we summon them to Earth to bring space communism and/or anal probing?
The Milky Way is huge. There’s room for there to be loads of aliens without any of us being within spitting distance of each other.
Or put simply: there are 8 billion people on Earth but you’re not anal probing anyone at the moment either.
I did some quick wolfram alpha calculations, assuming an average distribution of stars (false, since there are varying densities inside the arms and more density in the core), there actually should be one about every 0.9 square lightyears. A lot better than I expected. But I’ve played enough Elite: Dangerous to know that stellar density near the core is significantly higher to the point where it is DEFINITELY throwing these calculations off.
