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?
Because every motherfucker likes to forget about temporality. Life almost certainly exists elsewhere in the galaxy. The chances that it’s in a similar stage of development that we are at the same time period is almost 0. I mean shit we’ve been a “space faring” species for only 60 or so years at this point out of a total of 10,000ish years of existence as an advanced species