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The reference was clearly in regard to previously undiscovered intelligent life here on Earth. If you did not understand the reference, chances are you would not understand the rest.
As for wormholes, not sure what your point was. There is a big difference between a "wormhole" and a wormhole that is traversable.
Wormholes constructed based on the criteria laid out by general relativity suffer a major problem: They're not actually traversable. The entrances of general relativity wormholes are hidden behind event horizons, which are one-way barriers in space. That means if you were to enter the wormhole, you could never leave, which would defeat the purpose.
The other problem is that they are ridiculously unstable. The moment even a single photon, or light particle, enters the throat, the whole wormhole catastrophically collapses before that packet of light can escape.
This doesn't even begin to get into the intense gravity one would experience, or, the fact it would be a one way trip.
Or the amount of energy one would need to use to create one. We are talking whole planets, or small stars.
And there is still the problem of how much travel one would need to do to first even reach the (pre-existing) wormhole (on the extremely remote possibility it was traversable), and how far away after exiting it, they would still be from Earth, as one relatively close does not appear to exist.
You're assuming we're the top of the food chain and the peak of scientific knowledge. That could be the case though I'd bet against it. It's arrogant to presume we are the peak given the mind-blowing number of habitable planets we've already discovered in just a short period of time studying the skies.
Now ask yourself if we aren't the peak of scientific and technological knowledge and what if something else is further along evolution wise than us by even just 100 years? What about 200 years? 2,000 years? 200,000 years? 2,000,000 years? 20,000,000 years? Hell, 2,000,000,000 years? What would seem impossible to someone less than 125 years ago (flying) is now considered every day life.
Now imagine a similar evolutionary tract but on a galactic scale, who knows what type of crazy shit they've created if their species has been alive a million years longer than us. Who knows, maybe for them a trip to Earth from Alpha Centauri is just an every day 'Tuesday'.