New life, and new life forms

I think the first question is, Is our environment most common and is it too particularly advantageous such that we might expect it throughout the universe?Because if it's mostly planets with trees and water, I think wood pecking my be the most advantageous trait.Other than that, I'm not much of a sci-fi novel reader so I couldn't help much. Never watched any Star-Trek either, or any of the other sci-fi shows except for X-Files. I think anything that finds itself with the environmental pressure that mammals found themselves in, has potential to be highly evolved in intelligence. Now, as to our level of it? IdkBut I do think intelligence is mere happenstance. But I say that with no authority on the matter.- Oni

You would have to factor in the core tempurature of the universe, too, as it expands and cools off. Early galaxies may have experienced too high of an ambient temp to sustain life. Just as, in the future, it will be too cold to sustain life.We may find ourselves in just the right conditions for life in the universe, and any intelligent species would have had to emerge almost at the same time, more or less, as us.- OniEdited by onifre, : No reason given.Edited by onifre, : No reason given.

I agree, nothing special at all. But our Sun's formation relative to the Big Bang may have been at precisely the right time so that the core temp of the universe could sustain galaxies, that can sustain solar systems, that can sustain planets, that can sustain life.Early galaxies, those closest to the Big Bang, would have found temp's too hot. Just as galaxies billions of years from now may find temp's too cold.- OniEdited by onifre, : No reason given.

Well I'd say for any in the Milky Way, it is possible. But this would support my initial opinion that they would have to have started about when life on Earth emerged.For early galaxies that formed, they were made up of mostly gas and dark matter, so fewer stars formed. And those stars that did form were of very high mass, and that type of star doesn't last very long - or rather, long enough to support a Earth-type evolution.But I'm just going by what I recall reading, so if anyone can confirm or correct my assumtions here that would be helpful.- Oni