Originally Posted by 7luminaries

Altair, I offered that not because I am deeply tied to it. Instead, I offered it as one possibility which can and may be reasonably considered.

As I have said and as you have not yet acknowledged, many cosmologists and planetary scientists also include it as a reasonable possibility, given the preponderance of evidence for intelligent life having come to be on its own in multiple instances is so astronomically low. The logical extension is that we are not special and we too are subject to the same odds