I have had a similar thought... except human intelligence bootstraps intelligent machines that evolve so that and some day very far into the future and far from earth they would sit around argue about how "life" ever started started.

Maybe even some would claim it would be statistically improbable that a pieces of semi-conductor would ever arrange itself in any complex way necessary for "life"

Just like whatever bootstrapped biological life is largely unknown; intelligent machines not aware of a no longer existent warm hospitable blue dot would have no record of biological life kicking the process into motion.

Just a thought...

Programming Perl
By Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant

On line I remember went something like this:

"I works exactly the way you think it should work, we just have a hard time writing the way you think"

I also have a fixed ip address (that I always have access to) added to the file like this.

In hosts.deny
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sshd:ALL EXCEPT 187.190.10.1 /var/www/html/allow.txt
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Yes that really sounds more practical. A few years ago the Russians tried something like this and failed, but learn from that mistake and move on. It is really a good idea.

A broadly focused mirror could even provide additional light and heat to northern cold dark metro areas in the winter reducing fuel and lighting costs.

Molten rock pushed back up the borehole several meters before solidifying, making it perfectly safe to study

When dealing with a pressurized body of molten rock with entrained gasses, I don't think one could ever say it is perfectly safe.