Comment by dylan604

6 days ago

> Whereas intelligent life does seem to take a while to evolve

basing that theory on an anecdotal story of 1.

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andrewflnr  6 days ago

Depends how you count it. One planet, but a solid handful of mass extinctions with big adaptive radiations, most with several million years of development, and tons of reasonably intelligent social animals, only one of which produced industrial civilization. But yes, working with the best evidence we have...

kaliqt  6 days ago

While true, the opposite is true that we have zero evidence of any life whatsoever, anywhere, ever, except with us.