I am sure that intelligent life exists out there. It's just a numbers game. However, if they are intelligent, based on how long we have been around, chances are

I am sure that intelligent life exists out there. It's just a numbers game. However, if they are intelligent, based on how long we have been around, chances are they have been so much much longer. Millions of years would be more likely than thousands. So, I don't think we would even recognize them, or they us. I am pretty sure they would have cast off their biological bodies long ago, and probably have gotten to a point where time and space aren't as limiting either. I could see us doing this in a few thousand years. As any given intelligent life in the universe would likely be ahead of us by much more than that, I think we are akin to fleas on a dog wondering if there are other dogs with other fleas on them. Where in fact, there is much more going on all around us, and we aren't yet capable of being a party to that conversation.