Odds of intelligent life occuring?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There's no reason to believe the "WOW" signal came from another intelligence somewhere out there.

Did you read the article?

Ehman has said: "We should have seen it again when we looked for it 50 times. Something suggests it was an Earth-sourced signal that simply got reflected off a piece of space debris."[14] He later recanted his skepticism somewhat, after further research showed an Earth-borne signal to be very unlikely, given the requirements of a space-borne reflector being bound to certain unrealistic requirements to sufficiently explain the signal.[7] Also, it is problematic to propose that the 1420 MHz signal originated from Earth since this is within a protected spectrum: a bandwidth reserved for astronomical purposes in which terrestrial transmitters are forbidden to transmit.[15][16] In a 1997 paper, Ehman resists "drawing vast conclusions from half-vast data"—acknowledging the possibility that the source may have been military or otherwise a product of Earth-bound humans.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signa...27s_origin

I'm familiar with the WOW signal, I was an adult when it came through. BFD.

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For the most part the discussion here seems to assume that intelligence as it is exercised by our species is at the top of an intelligence continuum at least here on our planet in an unqualifiedly objective sense.  I wonder what the criteria are that make that placement tempting and to what degree it merely reflects the fact that it is our species doing grading.

Who did that, please?