Hypergiant stars found to have dusty disks in orbit

This is one more increase in the value on N in The Drake Equation. if the value of Fp has increased, so do the chances of life existing elsewhere in the galaxy. Soon we won't be able to deny the probability of life in other solar systems.

Unfortunately the Drake Equation is fairly subjective... If you want you can have there be life in every solar system, or you can make there be only one. It just depends on how you plug in the numbers.

Okay, I'll give you that. But we can at least agree that this discovery does increase the Fp variable, even if all of the other variables are unknowable. If nothing else, we have discovered at least a little more potential from our perspective of discovering life.

Although planets might survive around hyper-giant stars, life on them likely wouldn't. Radiation would be massively instense - and the hapitable zone very thin. Add to this that hyper-giant stars live only in the range of millions of years before undergoing supernova. Remember, bigger stars mean shorter lives.

After even a billion years, earth still did not have much in the way of life, or perhaps not even any life any life at all!

So the chances of life forming, and being anything significant, on these planets around hyper-giants is very small. The life-span of habitability on these planets would be more than miniscule... only the most basic of life might form. Beyond that, no, intelligent life will not arise around these stars. The star simply won't live long enough for it to happen.