If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
