I am willing to bet $1000 life exists in a Trillion planets in universe. Problem is the distances are so large (millions of light years) that there is no way to communicate with any of them, much less travel there. One has to understand how large the universe is to comprehend what I just said. So my $1000 will remain safely in my pocket. And I won’t win $1000 from anyone.
Just think of this, we can’t ever even reach the closest solar system to us, right here in Milky way galaxy. It is just too far, and earth has no resources to build a rocket ship which can sustain 1000+ generations of reproducing humans in a rocket ship.
In conclusion, just enjoy the precious life we are awarded, and our earth will be gobbled up by the Sun as it grows as a red giant star. My best guess is humans will last 10 million more years on this planet, at best.
I agree it is too far for chemical rocket ships of today's generation.
I have learned never to say impossible.
We now know effective faster than light "warp drive" is theoretically possible.
Mind blowing.
Not technologically possible at this time, but not requiring the energy of several suns, either.