Oh no, not at all. That would be absolutely mind-blowingly brilliant. OTOH it would be finding a fossil, rather than an organism. Not something we could have a back-and-forth with. Any intelligent life is too marooned for that.
And although I believe life is plentiful in the cosmos, I think intelligent life is extremely rare, not inevitable at all.
Intelligence only arrived on Earth seconds ago in the big scheme of things. Life plodded along for millennia before us. I think it takes a perfect storm of factors, environmental, biological and cosmological to allow creatures such as us to evolve.
If the dinosaurs hadn’t been so rudely interrupted, it’s likely we’d never have happened.
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