The Discovery of Alien Intelligence

The discovery of alien intelligence will be one of the most significant, well, probably the most significant thing that has ever happened to us as a collective. And you know what? If we're contacted through the vast gulfs of time and space by machine consciousness, this would probably amaze and befuddle them. What if all of the civilizations exploring the stars are essentially created by planet bound terrestrials? Noit. I mean, what is the alternative for an organic thing to live on that scale of time? It would be like a it would belike a microbe, right?