Was Drake able to explain infinity? Technologicaly speaking I think we are like babes in a crib, we realy do not have an understanding of the universe, that doesn’t mean some other life form doesn’t. So far we have approached space travel like Europeans approached traveling by sea. When all you know how to do is build a boat the only thing you can do is float.
Our DNA is only slightly more complex than that of chimpanzees, yet it is only about half as complex as DNA could theoretically be.