[cloudmountain]

Seriously though, I really don't think we'll find evidence of alien life any time soon.

You are right.
Also, the distances for visiting are too great.
"Out there" has the exact same elements that are here on earth. The periodic chart works for all existence. The only changes to those elements would be heat, cold and rather large explosions.
Probably all that would be found would be, at best, some bacteria--or old records of Ethel Merman singing: "There's NO business like SHOW business." :o)

Even if we somehow had enough fuel, our lifetimes are too short to get there. Even stasis sleep wouldn't be viable.
The astronauts wouldn't get back to earth for a thousand light years.
Their gardens would sure need watering, wouldn't they?

[FredZarguna]

The astronauts wouldn't get back to earth for a thousand light years.

A light year is ~9.5 x 10¹⁵ meters. It's a measure of distance, not time.

[varmintman]

Seriously though, I really don't think we'll find evidence of alien life any time soon.

You are right. Also, the distances for visiting are too great.

Our first priority has to be dealing with remains of past civilization in our own system, we can worry about the stars later.