[Blood of Tyrants]

Which is one of the 100+ reasons that finding life forms on any other planet is highly unlikely.

[Does so]

We are alone...

[Telepathic Intruder]

Christiaan Huygens once looked at Mars with a telescope, and said it would be an awful waste of space if Mars were uninhabited. But it's very likely that the entire universe is, with only a few tiny exceptions. How many factors make life possible, and how closely do they all have to coincide? Obviously you need the right temperature for liquid water, an atmosphere, a good amount of heavy elements including carbon, and a stable sun. But there are also a myriad of smaller things that may or may not be necessary. A magnetic field, a large moon, continental drift, a Jupiter-like planet in the outer solar system to shepherd away rogue asteroids, etc. How often do all these factors combine as in our case? And yet, Earth is still hit by occasional extinction events. A single gamma ray burst could end the whole show. Life may be so rare in the universe that we are the only example, at least in this galaxy.

Just an optimistic thought to put an extra skip in your step.