Agreed. The article also seems skeptical that aliens would be willing or capable to travel for thousands of years to reach us. For a truly advanced species who

Agreed. The article also seems skeptical that aliens would be willing or capable to travel for thousands of years to reach us. For a truly advanced species who have undoubtedly extended their lifetime drastically, I doubt thousands of years would feel like a very long time. Hell, thousands of years wouldn't even feel like a long time for human-built computers.