That's not depressing. It gives us a moral imperative to transplant Earth-origin life onto every somewhat concentrated mass that we can reach.
Then we can wait a few billion years, and the universe will likely have generated a superior successor species which can then re-seed over everything we had previously tilled, and then some.
And they'll all be rubber-forehead aliens to one another, because they'll be billionth cousins, a few million times removed.
Then we can wait a few billion years, and the universe will likely have generated a superior successor species which can then re-seed over everything we had previously tilled, and then some.
And they'll all be rubber-forehead aliens to one another, because they'll be billionth cousins, a few million times removed.