Are There Other Intelligent Beings Out There?

We don't know if there are other intelligent beings out there in the galaxy also wondering about the same questions that we are, probing the nature of matter. Yet we're liking a cosmological time out. We can see really far into the universe, across billions and billions of light ears, and are witnessing taclysmic cosmic events that give us clues into the nature of reality. I think it's even more interesting if they are alien astronomers looking at the same events, but before we are. They might have been like working on this in writing papers, and scooped ust by a hundred million yearsha ha, ha. Te san.