> it's nearly comical to believe we're the only intelligent life in the universe Why the obsession with life? If our space ships landed on a distant planet co

> it's nearly comical to believe we're the only intelligent life in the universe Why the obsession with life? If our space ships landed on a distant planet containing an advanced civilization of intelligent robots, would we shrug, say “no life here,” and head home? In fact, if you think about it, life is the most boring thing we could discover. We already know a lot about life, and how life may evolve, but we know absolutely nothing about how civilizations and intelligence may come from other substrates. I hope we don’t find life, but something far weirder.