General Discussion

Whether they come together to bake a cake is another story. But I still agree with you. Given enough opportunities, trillions upon trillions of star systems just in our local group of galaxies, it would be unusual if life didn't occur many, many, many times over. Perhaps billions of times. Just not what we would consider intelligent life. That might be very rare. It's an extremely new phenomenon on our own planet and the jury is still out on whether it's a viable evolutionary edge or just a novel, and sometimes destructive dead end. "Unintelligent" life did just fine around here for billions of years prior to our species showing up.