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We make a mistake by assuming that life forms would likely be at the same scale as us. Larger planets would likely develop life forms appropriate for those planets instead of appropriate for ours.
Uh... being smaller or larger does not really change the laws of physics... if the gravity is too high, no fuel has enough energy density to escape the gravity of the celestial body.
If you need 150kg of fuel to get 100kg worth of matter to escape velocity it does not matter how much fuel you have. It will not ever be enough to leave.
Most of the life we see on Earth isn't even our size!
Life on earth scales from microscopic bacteria all the way up funguses that have an underground network covering thousands of acres.
The chances of us finding life on another planet is pretty slim, the chance of that life looking like us is astronomically miniscule.
Also, of all the millions of species that have evolved on Earth, only one has developed civilisation. We're an anomaly, not an inevitability. Other planets could be teeming with life, but it's happy to just chill in the forest/ocean/wherever.
Damn. As if the atmosphere wasn't enough of a hurdle already, they gots dumpys too