We don't know! The universe may be like a buble that forms when the water is boiling, but we are trying to understand. As Carl Sagan said, we are star stuff, we are part of the universe, trying to understand itself. It may be the case that in the whole of matters humanity, the earth, even the milky way will fade in a rounding approximation. But still, we exist, we are able to grasp that, that we exist, and we strive to know more. Is the universe intelligent? There is no proof of that, despite alot of people tried to prove so. Other beings may develop, if you take the vastness of possibilities in planet formations, chemical reactions, etc. But, to communicate or travel here, they would have to be terribly advanced. The answer is that I don't know, and I am not afraid of it, I am courious. 
