Ask HN: What are your odds that "we are not alone" is confirmed this year?

0% - assuming you're referring to intelligent alien species

0.5%

Zero. We cannot possibly be alone, but confirmation depends upon our ability to imagine the unimaginable.

Life, yes. Intelligent life, yes. Intelligent life whose manifestations we can recognize, no.

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Infinitesimally close to zero.

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