[Chainmail]

Which makes one wonder - why is NASA expending so much money to "find evidence" of life? Why is this important to them?

Any engineer can tell them that nothing that functions well is accidental.

[Kevmo]

It’s all about money and politics.

Analogy
You pay me a $million / year to roll the dice once a year. If I hit on that 10^-trillion-trillion blowout. Then I have to pay you a $trillion. That’s like saying out of all the atoms in our galaxy, I end up landing on the one atom you selected. Would you take that bet? Sure as shiite. In the meantime I’m running my own $million/year agenda.