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I think the most compelling evidence we have that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us..!

hehe.. But on a more serious note, there must be something out there; If the universe is as infinite as we are led to believe, then there are infinite possibilities, meaning that everything we can possibly imagine and more must exist somewhere.

However, because when we look into space we are actually looking millions of years into the past, anything we do find will most likely be extinct before we could even consider reaching it, because they'd probably be extinct at the time we see them. And anything alive out there today wouldn't be found as we'd be looking into the past, probably millions of years before they existed...  Our only hope of encounter is purely accidental, thus it's simpler to just agree that there is no life out there.. or that we'll never find it, anyway...