https://youtu.be/x4iBBfEHNaE?si=Io_xq8qd7Uq40MEG

If we only use a few of the free floating building blocks in the universe for life on Earth, then how many permutations and possibilities are possible to arise?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHNOPS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid

>"Although over 500 amino acids exist in nature, by far the most important are the 22 α-amino acids incorporated into proteins. Only these 22 appear in the genetic code of life".

Surely the ability to manipulate both large and small objects with shit like hands or tentacles in quantity, large numbers of appendices say like spider legs, manipulating like our snausage fingerinos and opposable thumbses. Brain power. And some reproduction, senses and communication.

Water only species will have a hard time ascending without getting out of the water I believe, but we live in an ocean of pressurized oxygen and hydrogen dioxide gas so IDK.
What else do they need, energy in, processing and disposal.
So you want me to dig through the greys, the reptilians, and the giant Aryans alien poopoo peepee for my new job in the galactic imperium? Yeah, its really a great intergalactic joke having the monkeys be the jannies.
Cool.
Glad we ascended for this...