The fun thing is that when people mention the "grey goo" disaster. Well that happened. Evolution "didn't progress" for 3 billion years. Then the oxygen catastro

The fun thing is that when people mention the "grey goo" disaster. Well that happened. Evolution "didn't progress" for 3 billion years. Then the oxygen catastrophe made sure the grey goo was on the back foot for a few hundred million years (ie. it accidentally almost completely destroyed itself. Whoops) And the branch of life we're part of ... adapted faster to the new circumstances.