Posit an intelligent species with a much longer life span. If one coherent intelligence can exist long enough to cross interstellar distances at sub-light speed, then that species could colonize a galaxy.
Of course, would that kind of intelligence even recognize us as intelligent, any more than we recognize ants? But then we're into thinking meat territory.
Of course, would that kind of intelligence even recognize us as intelligent, any more than we recognize ants? But then we're into thinking meat territory.