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Yes, I think there's a very very very high chance that there is intelligent life out there, even life as intelligent as or more intelligent than we are. However, I highly doubt that any of them will be create space-faring civilizations. Here's why.

Civilization, the organizational structures that support it, and the mindframe necessary to actually allow it to happen without realizing that it goes against almost everything that our brains and bodies are programmed for, happened because of a long string of accidents, drastic climatological changes, and other such situations. Civilization wasn't a natural offshoot of human history, quite the opposite.

Homo Sapiens has been around a few hundred thousand years, and human ancestors have been around for millions, but civilization, government, organized religion, and agriculture have only been around for 8-10,000 years - the evolutionary blink of an eye. We didn't evolve into it, either. We are, physically and psychocemically, exactly the same as our ancestors of 300,000 years ago.

Therefore, even though a humanlike species (or something much much more intelligent) could possibly living very happily on another planet or a million other planets, I highly doubt that they have or will ever reach the "civilized" point that allows for something like space travel.

At least, I hope they don't. One is enough.