Exactly, other life would be a minimum of a million years ahead of us or a million years behind. Using earth as a reference. Life has been on earth for 4 billio

Exactly, other life would be a minimum of a million years ahead of us or a million years behind. Using earth as a reference. Life has been on earth for 4 billion years, and nothing remotely interesting until the last 0.5 billion years. All of human civilization has occurred in the last .000012 billion years. From our perspective 'Alien life' will be either the faintest traces of ancient ruins or pond scum.