Hmm, I’m sure life takes hold and evolves differently on each planet where life can take hold and evolve. Perhaps we’re, humankind is a freak of nature. Without the asteroid impact in the Yucatan 65 million years ago, there probably would be no humans or apes for that matter. I think it’s a mistake to think that life evolves the way it did here on earth on other planets.

Maybe life doesn’t need to be on a planet in the Goldilocks zone with liquid water? Hear of extremophiles? Then there has been life found, survived on the outside of the ISS. Bacteria for sure, but life non-the-less. We keep thinking that life out there will be like us, like life on earth, perhaps different in minor ways, but basically like life as we know it. Life on distant planets and moons may be nothing like us or life on Earth. Life could be so different out there; we wouldn’t even realize we discovered life after we discovered it.

Speaking of destructiveness of humankind, I think we’ll blow ourselves up before we even get a chance to go seek life out there. Ever hear of the Fermi Paradox, now that is interesting.

https://www.livescience.com/fermi-paradox

Then how about panspermia?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/panspermia

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.