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But the sheer size of the universe suggests that nearly anything is not only possible, but likely. However, given the extremely narrow time window that is likely for such a civilization, and the different times that a planet would have begun to develop life, I think civilization is probably sparsely peppered throughout the known universe. But given there are at least 1 hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe, and billions to hundreds of billions of stars in EVERY SINGLE ONE... well, the math is staggering. It renders nearly any probability almost certain.
I imagine it on a spacetime plot. If you use a space plot (XYZ) and consider today (this moment), then we may be the only life in the universe, or one of the few. But if you use a spacetime plot (which includes time), then I think there are a lot of lives in this universe. We may not cross each other either on the temporal scale, or the space ones.