You should smoke that joint on a warm summer morning, early, in the middle of nowhere, even an empty plain, and marvel at Nature all around you. Then marvel further at the Maker of the Math.
I think it's more a matter of Earth being stuck with us, and what a bargain we've been.
Carl Sagan did the Math.
Q is doing the Math.
Of course, we're not alone.
Doesn't mean we've had a direct contact/relationship with beings from another planet, another solar system, another galaxy, etc….
Doing a bang-up job of it, I see. /sarc
Carl is one that prompted me to "expand my thinking."