Votto
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I'm not sure what you consider "intelligent life" but dinos certainly had some intelligence. They were evolving for as long as mammals and were much more successful at it. If that asteroid had missed us the dino could well have become sentient given another 65 million years. As to the asteroid, it was a rare but regular event. Throughout earths history large asteroids have continually hitting the earth every few million years.
Well, I suppose you could believe that, given time, dinosaurs would have sent dinos to the moon and invented science to cure diseases and discover physics. I don't believe that because there is no evidence to suggest they were moving in that direction.
And yes, asteroids hit planets all the time but this particular one just so happened to be large enough to destroy the dinosaurs but not all living things, and it happened at just the right time along the evolution scale to allow mammals to benefit from the extinction event.
My entire point is that our "intelligent life" is the result of quite a few circumstantial events which preceded it and made it possible. And even with all this amazing menagerie of circumstantial events happening, it's only within the past 60,000 years or so that we see anything resembling what we would consider "intelligent life" if we discovered it elsewhere.
Nothing to see here.
Just a trillion different coincidences.