>> “If a planet had life …, they would be able to contact us and communicate with us.”
No one has ever been able to explain all the UFO sightings (there has to be genuine sightings among the bogus ones); or explain the crop circles that are getting more sophisticated by the day. Apparently some entities have been visiting us and are not shy about letting us know, while taking care not to interfere with our lives.
>> “… they are probably millions of light-years away”
That is true only in terms of our current body and the physical laws of planet Earth. We are more than just a body and can all look forward to the time when, once again, we can travel at the speed of our thoughts, going anywhere in the universe instantaneously, unlimited in time and space.
Whatever you say, Elvis.