1.   It Decrees that intelligent life in some way selects out its own actual universe from a variety of possible alternatives.

2.   Most of these universes will not provide the right conditions for the development of the complicated structures needed for intelligent life.

3.   Thus intelligent life could not exist in the contracting phase of the universe.

4.   Two years ago, we discovered the first evidence for intelligent life outside the Earth.

5.   Yes, well, I suppose they also told you that intelligent life has been found on Mars?

6.   If then we are so certain that other intelligent life exists in the universe, why have we had no visitors from outer space yet?

7.   Obviously there is pleasure in watching Hollywood recognise intelligent life in the typing pool.

8.   And the possibility of a future encounter with an intelligent life that exists somewhere out in the farther reaches of space heightens the attraction, said Shreeve.

9.   Are our conventional notions of intelligent life too narrow?