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Are we alone? The scary thing about the Drake equation - Fermi Paradox

I have always loved space and was very excited by the Viking Program  for the exploration of Mars and followed the various space probes to the bigger outer gas giants and their corresponding moons. The robotic space probes Voyager, Voyager2, New Horizons, etc sent back excellent photographs and terrific data, they expanded our knowledge of the universe. Then  probes sent to travelling asteroids and comets, that gave us a fresher experience of these visitors and their elliptic journey within our solar system from slinging close to our sun to the extremely cold temperatures of far beyond. With the discovery of an underground lake of water on Mars, a subsurface ocean on Europa (a moon of Jupiter) and Enceladus (a moon of Saturn). Finding liquid water as essential in our thinking for life, "as we know it", has rekindled our efforts to find life, be it microscopic or primitive in our solar system.  Then, there are millions and millions  of galaxies  in the universe. And each