I tend to agree with you. The best explanation I have heard about Fermi paradox is that it disappears when you express the number of planets in exponential nota

I tend to agree with you. The best explanation I have heard about Fermi paradox is that it disappears when you express the number of planets in exponential notation. If instead of saying "what are the odds that we are the only intelligent species when there are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 [random number, I don't know the number] planets in the universe," you express it as "... when there are 10^36 planets in the universe," it becomes easy to answer: Imagine creation of intelligent life requires 36 uncorrelated parameters to line up in a planet, an each of those parameters have a 10% chance of occurring in any given planet. There would be only one such planet in the universe in all likelihood. Our loneliness in the universe doesn't seem so implausible now, does it?