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Comment author: drethelin 10 December 2013 06:43:50PM *  3 points [-]

It seems to take a lot more than 15 million years to get from "life" to "intelligent life". According to the article this period would only have lasted for a million years, so at most we would probably get a lot of monocellular life arising and then dying during the cooloff.