>…not very interesting Doubtful, our ability just to contemplate the question makes us very interesting. In the one place in the universe where we know withou

>…not very interesting Doubtful, our ability just to contemplate the question makes us very interesting. In the one place in the universe where we know without a doubt that life exists—tens of millions of different sorts critters had to come into being, then fail or succeed as a species and evolve, only for a single species to manage to emerge to the point where it could actually ponder the notion of “hey! what if there is other intelligent life out there…and why haven’t they contacted us yet?” Also throw in the fact that it took nearly a full third of the age of the universe for our species to get to that point and it seems pretty likely that intelligence to our level is very rare. So yes, a billion different sorts of amoebas might be meh, but a species capable of sending a package into interstellar space—that might pique something’s interest (assuming there is something out there whose interest could be piqued)