[SeekAndFind]

RE: The odds of intelligent life developing anywhere is about the same as 100 monkeys at 100 typewriters banging out the complete works of Shakespeare before three billion years are up.

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What about the odds of intelligent life having developed here on earth?

[chesley]

What about the odds of intelligent life having developed here on earth?

Call me when that happens. The definitive test will be when socialist ideas die out completely and are not just repackaged.

I won't hold my breath.

[Happy Rain]

The same—the first intelligent life will ride the “chariots of the gods” and implant their DNA in every suitable species on every suitable planet. Reproduction is the most important tactic of survival and one wants ones DNA to continue even if it is in an ape.
I would guess there are other planets where one species is so more vastly advanced than any other it is inexplicable even to themselves--albeit they too probably have lame empirically unprovable theories like Darwinism.
Intelligence is a benign interstellar virus.