So does life on any planet evolve by the same rules as here on Earth? Might aliens be so close to us that they could walk among us? I just don't see the probability of a bug-eyed monster or cockroach evolving to make a space craft.Just to knock down the I.Q. rating of this conversation about 50 points...The ancient (possibly genetic), farmer in my head says, "Anywhere there is a nutrition budget, there will be something which converts it."
I suppose it took a few billion years to get that way, but that's what I found.