text: if a space probe were to go to another galaxy, is there a likeliness of a whole new race of inteligent life? it's amazing to see what the world has accomplished these days. it would be awesome to see a space probe go to the adromeda galaxy o sombrero galaxy. though they are millions of lightyears away, our milky way galaxy will one day collide with the adromeda galaxy. t would be amazing to have a space probe send back pictures. a probe going to another galaxy may indeed find life. it could also be inellegent. the only problem is that it would (with current and planned technology) take centuries for the probes to arrive.the fastest spacecraft we have today is the one heading for pluto. it will take ten years just to get there and that's in our own solar system. there may be life elsewhere even in our own galaxy. but there are literally billions of stars just in the milky way galaxy. the cost of space flight will prohibit extensive exploration, at least for the forseeable future. as for the race of hypothetical beings, it is hard to imagine that with the randomness and sheer numbers of life on earth as an example, we'd find similar beings in terms of physical appearance. one more issue would be the radiation damage a space probe would incur during a flight of this duration. even a short time in space is damaging for complex and sensative objects (human and machine). cosmic radiation floods space with sub-atomic particles traveling at or near the speed of light. those particles pierce and pass through what ever it is they run into (except several very dense elements). the damage occurs to the probe on a microscopic level. the eletronics, computer chips and sensors begin to look like swiss cheese after enough exposure. there may be solutions to these problems in the future, but for now they are another prohibitive factor for extensive space exploration.