Are We Alone? If Not, Where are the Aliens?

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Short answer: No. We are not alone.

Long answer: It is so ridiculously unlikely that we are the only sapient species in the universe that the only force you could invoke to explain it would literally be God. In which case, He’s made an awful lot of wasted space.

Right now, we are aware of over 4,100 exoplanets. The biggest problem studying them is that we can’t…