man it would be so sad if we were the only ones in the milky way, we would literally have to wait for andromeda to collide with us to find another,(reply>), I’m sure other life is in the Milky Way, and other galaxies. Imagine if aliens visited our planet 100m or 200m years ago, they’d conclude no intelligent conscience exists on this planet, and our planet is 4b years old. We are such a blip in earths history, I think intelligence is very rare. Remember the dinosaurs still had a longer run than us. It’s so fascinating how much our human race changed within 300 thousand years.