"Here is an interesting look into evolution and the likelihood of intelligent life.


https://www.realclearscience.com/ar..._might_be_the_only_intelligent_life.html"

That was an absolutely fascinating article.

Not because I'm convinved that it's true. Just because it is so unlikely that we would find a proof for it that it's a thesis that can't really be falsified, but it's an interesting supporting argument when discussing the Fermi Paradoxon, especially when examining the Big Filter argument. All the Dinosaur fossils that we dug up cover a period of about 150 million years; if there was a technological Dinosaur civilization that lasted only 5,000 years, of which only 150 years could be considered "industrialized", only one in a million fossils would be from that period, and even then we wouldn't know if that skeleton was from an "intelligent Technosaurus" or a non-intelligent dinosaur that just happened to live at the same time, just like there's still more non-sentient animals around us today than there are humans.
I'm just trying to point out why we can't rule it out, since some here made the bold claim that it couldn't possibly be the case.

Thanks for that one.
At the end of the day, we just don't have enough data. We need more samples of habitable worlds and see if life developed there to start guessing the probabilities with more confident. At the moment anything is still possible.