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Yeah, speaking in terms of life, period, as opposed to intelligent life, I wouldn't be surprised if life were quite abundant. I'd speculate that life has occurred on at least a couple bodies within our very own solar system at some time (but may not necessarily exist at this very moment). The trick is having the right conditions for life to develop beyond a few cells (assuming the biology is even similar to ours). And then, after the life develops to any sort of substantial size (think animal as opposed to bacteria), it has to then develop under the right conditions to become intelligent.
So life? All over. Intelligent life? Common on the cosmic scale, extremely uncommon on the human scale.
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