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No, there is no Area 51. Damn.
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I'll give you that the existance of simple life such as microbes is pretty widely accepted. But the existance of intelligent life besides us is absolutely NOT a statistical certainty.
The likelyhood of the circumstances that allowed us to exist repeating is simply that small.
Besides, there is the matter of time. No matter how many planets are out there, you need a fuck ton of time to get to intelligent life.
It took earth about 4 billion years to go from a heaping ball of fire to having humans in it. That's almost 1/3 of the age of the fucking universe!
It doesn't matter how many planets with life there are if they didn't exist for long enough to reach the point we're at.