I personally believe that life is a universal constant and that any and virtually all planetary bodies at some stage in their history or life cycle will have some kind of outbreak.<br>I’m not saying technological life, but anything from single celled organisms to some kind of slime that eats other slime to beings that have the power to ask a question, any question.<br>We need to find somewhere dark and wet on the moon and dig as deep as possible.<br>If we can find some kind of virus or something that lives and we can prove it evolved separately from earth that would in my opinion be absolute proof that the universe is your typical pond that teams with life, just not as we always know it.<br>Having said that, the age of the universe compared to anything that lives could mean that no two entities ever exist at the same time and the distances involved mean that we are on our own and we have to spread, multiply and leave some kind of mark.<br>Genetics will possibly be the only way we can really spread the herd and go where now humanite has gone before.