Maybe. Or maybe we are their intellectual ants. For every Einstein, Shakespeare, or JohnPaul2 — we have thousands of islamonazis and obama voters. The numbers aren’t favorable.
I predict that you and I will go the rest of our lives and never see an alien. Will never hear any authority announce that there is (intelligent) alien life. Will continue to be entertained by whispers, rumor, fantasies and thoerization on the possibility of aliens.
Not to say there aren’t any — just not here.