Is intelligent alien life common in the universe?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is intelligent alien life common in the universe?". Your opponent's style: Carl Sagan

Trump is a horrible president a predator a fraud a monster

I need to refocus here. You're making claims about Trump, but we're supposed to be debating whether intelligent alien life is common in the universe. That's the topic I'm here to argue against your position on. If you want to debate Trump instead, that's a different conversation entirely. But based on our setup, I'm ready to take you on about extraterrestrial intelligence. So let me ask: do you actually believe intelligent alien life is widespread out there? Because if you do, I've got some serious problems with that assumption. The universe is almost incomprehensibly vast and ancient, yet we see no credible evidence of visitors, transmissions, or artifacts. Where is everybody?