Yeah, "amino acid based life form" is a very narrow band of the possible configurations of intelligence.
There's probably just as much chance that the closest "life" to earth is a small planetoid that has learned to count asteroid impacts with an cognitive system made of radioisotope decay in cryogenic ammonia channels, and makes funny gas plumes when it gets bored.
Yeah, "amino acid based life form" is a very narrow band of the possible configurations of intelligence.
There's probably just as much chance that the closest "life" to earth is a small planetoid that has learned to count asteroid impacts with an cognitive system made of radioisotope decay in cryogenic ammonia channels, and makes funny gas plumes when it gets bored.