Bottle wrote:2) It is vanishingly unlikely that said life will resemble anything familiar to us.
An interesting speculation...
How unfamiliar? Not fitting our existing cladistic "orders" would hardly surprise me, but nothing like our "kingdoms" would. What else... Lack of bilateralism? Biochemistry we don't initially recognize as living?
I guess I'd also be surprised by a lack of eyes we recognize. There don't seem to be too many image-forming systems we can think of, even allowing abiological ones.