Intelligent life isn’t even common on the one planet where we know it exists. You have maybe a dozen species that could go beyond their basal instincts out of

Intelligent life isn’t even common on the one planet where we know it exists. You have maybe a dozen species that could go beyond their basal instincts out of millions of forms of life and only a single species has the intelligence to make itself known outside the biosphere. Life might be common, but “intelligent” life? That seems to be exceedingly rare.