We are probably alone, within the Milky Way anyway. There is abundant life out there, but it is all microbes. So says Brownlee, lead scientist of the recently landed comet dust return mission, Stardust.
I, on the other hand, think the milky way and the whole cosmos is crawling with life and there's no reason to think we are the advanced kind.
I have had some suspicions about pissant. I wonder if...........lol