Quote Originally Posted by NaturalMystic1
Because we are not part of the grid, nothing relies on us like they rely on eachother.
this is true. the more advanced we become technologically, or even chronologically (the longer we're around) the more detached we make ourselves from the planet and the natural order of things. i'd be a hypocrite to say i'm not the same, seeing as how i'm currently typing on a computer to people in cyberspace, potentially thousands of miles away.
they've supposedly found an area in our galaxy that can be looked beyond, and in this area they've seen hundreds of other galaxies; a galaxy, as we know, being comprised of hundreds of thousands of stars.
so the odds of life being out there is extremely high.
just, as others have stated, it might not be anything more than one-celled organisms.