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What of we're first by quite a large margin?
What if we had some quizzical head start - some statistically unlikely lack of gamma ray bursts in the vicinity? Some happenstance deposition of all the right ingredients on this one wee globe, the only one blessed-so?
What if we spend the next 10 million years slowly plodding across the galaxy, finding nothing but our own cousins from different divergences of Earth's old tree?
What if we achieve all that we need and decide to turn in and somehow put our collective self to bed... and only then the universe warms to the idea and starts creating life everywhere?
We would say we were alone, that we were somehow chosen.
And as ever, we'd be wrong.