If they're out there, they're too far away to make contact in their lifetime.
Of course, if they're really advanced, they've mastered access issues through inter-demensional transit, worm hole conduits, anti-matter acceleration or other outrageous exploitations of principles of physics.
I do believe that in all the universes, galaxies, etc... there is some form of intellegent life. I just don't think we need to waste money trying to contact them.