Contact with other life forms?
You buy a plot of land, and wish to build a new house.
The guy with the backhoe shows up to dig out the space for the basement and foundation.
There are quite possibly 500 million ants in that 20' x 40' space.
Does he ask the ants already living there if they...
I was hoping to see this from my house. ~80 miles away, I've seen other launches from there.
Every previous night that was scrubbed, clear here.
Actual launch? Of COURSE it was cloudy.
Oh well.
Humans on Mars?
3 years from now?
Not a chance.
First, show us the plan for a vehicle with 2 or more humans, living off planet, totally unsupported, for more than 6 months.
Do it in LEO first, then we'll see.
Depending on the definition of "intelligent", the probability of "intelligent life evolving on a planet" is 100%.
Us.
The question is, did it happen a second time?
I say Yes.
But the probability of humans discovering this second (or third/fourth/twentieth) instance in the lifetime of anyone...