In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet’s atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.
It’s almost statistically impossible that we’re the only life in the universe. It’s estimated that there are hundreds of millions to possibly even billions of habitable planets in the Milky Way alone. The thought that we’re the only planet with complex life, sentient organisms, let alone sapient organisms is just basic human egocentrism.
I’m in full throated agreement with your assessment.