Are we alone?

I know big question.  I'm actually posting this because of an earlier thread posted on here - apologies to the OP but I don't recall who it was.  Anyway, I thought this article might be of interest.  If you are like me, you believe it's almost mathematically impossible for us to be the only intelligent life in the universe, regardless of where we came from.  I also believe, when you attempt to grasp the vastness of space, that's its almost equally mathematically impossible that any intelligent life have managed to find us in the barely perceptible time frame (on the universal scale) that we have existed....barely a millisecond by the universes watch.

"It’s the question at the heart of humanity itself, the key to everything we know about ourselves, about our world and even of our gods: Are we alone in the universe?"

http://nypost.com/2017/04/13/40-billion-trillion-reasons-why-aliens-probably-exist/