How much energy do monkeys put into finding us and we are on the same planet. Intelligent life wouldn't want our brand of love finding them, they may contact us when we grow up someday, I mean they have already intervened enough to speed up our evolution, what more do you want? Trust me when I say, if they are advanced enough to traverse the galaxy, let alone the universe, they will only be found if they choose to reveal themselves! We are a migratory species and that should be our focus, to spread our seed throughout the universe as our engineers before us, it was put into our design through the transfer of genetic information and instruction. Until our planet is no longer viewed as a primitive threat to ourselves and others, we won't be allowed to go to far from our solar system for good reason, high intelligence comes with high levels of empathy for all life, would you want a young race to potentially extinct themselves by giving them too much rope? Of course not and we can only assume that they wish us to achieve our potential as they have.