The predominant age of the universe according to astronomers is 13.9 BILLION years give or take 200 million.
Humans are not even 1 million years old as a species. If an intelligent life within traveling distance emerged 1% faster than us, they would already be 13,900,000 years old. And that is just 1%. What if an intelligent life emerged 50% faster, on planets orbiting stars that no longer exist? They would be 7 BILLION years old.
We humans literally just got here, and there is growing speculation it was not even by chance.
I would say the odds here are that space has been full of intelligent life and for a very long time.
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