I feel like a lot of people don't know about the Rare Earth/Uniqueness Hypothesis. When I found out about it, it gave me a totally new perspective. Sure, the odds lend themselves to extraterrestrial life, but maybe we are the 1 in bazillion chance. And by no means do I consider us special. The scope of the universe regardless of whether it contains other life or not totally exceeds our comprehension and understanding. At the same time, there may be some species out there that has known of our existence for thousands of years but couldn't give less of a damn. We can't act all special that we actually found something besides ourselves when something else might have beaten us to it.