Re:I think that there is a lack of imagination her (Score 1)

Very much agree here. So many assumptions are made about "life" and what is required for it.. oxygen, water, 'organic' molecules. That is life ON EARTH, and the only form we understand to date. Without even being able to define "life" with any certainty, how on Earth can we pretend to know what form it can take or under what conditions it must exist? More assumptions are made that any life that forms MUST progress to a technological civilization, feel the need to expand and consume more and more resources, be potentially aggressive and/or hostile, and have similar desires and egos. In other words, we create them in our own image. Very short sighted.