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Les I have found truly original thought is very rare indeed. As for so called intelligent life I have rarely met it even amongst humans. They act irrationally without any thought driven by base emotion. They are also prone to believe the last half lie they heard that suited their worldview.
I would be the first to ask for evidence for any hypothesis. The fact that no matter where we look we find life on any habitat on our planet leads me to consider life is ubiquitous. Fortunately it is a long way away!
Both alternatives have very deep consequences. If we are alone in the Universe can we afford to keep sh_itt_ing in our nest we all know as spaceship Earth. It should be spaceship Water with dirt bits with a plague of primates living as if there is no tomorrow. We destroy habitats at our own peril as they sustain us.
Ask the Australian Aborigine, the North American Indian, the African, the South East Asian, etc etc ect what happens when a technologically superior mob turn up. They steal your resources and your women!
Hopefully interstellar aliens have a different biology so we cannot be used for food.
We will destroy ourselves before we meet aliens. I am sure that any 'intelligent' aliens have done this long ago and will do it again in the future. We are not talking geological time but star evolution time and hence stellar system time.
Meanwhile I will still make friends with wildlife as you never know when you need their help!
Bert
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