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\section{Life and intelligence}  The interesting fact about the 2014 version of the Drake equation is that it only contains factors dealing with the emergence of life itself. Broadly speaking astrophysics has answered with a big "yes!" the question if, statistically speaking, the conditions required for life as we know it are common or not in the Universe.  %cradles for life as we know it are common in the universe or Next step is characterizing these worlds, and finding %trace of life.  $f_l$ \textbf{How likely is the emergence of life}?   If life was impossible nobody would know it. Similarly the fact that we exist on Earth can not be used to draw conclusions on how probable is life in the Universe. Even if this probability was extremely low and life existed only on one planet in the Universe we would necessarily be on that planet.