Contact with life similar to ours is the only contact that's important... What's the point of finding life you cannot communicate with???

The universe is likely teaming with life...

Unfortunately, maybe 98% of anything we might even recognize is most likely single cell life... Big whoop...

Fire isn't alive, it's a simple chemical reaction... Stone, clouds, air... nor them... And all the new age hippy longing in the universe ain't gonna make it so...

:-)