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It's worse than that! It's a couple of billion years, and a planet's worth of organic molecules and water.

And, there's a least some evidence that it's even worse than that -- intelligence does not appear to be common in the universe. So it might well be a couple of billion years * a million planets worth of organic molecules and water (or a hundred million planets. Or a billion planets).




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