Haha I've had conversations like that before. In a way we're so isolated but at the same time surrounded by a massive universe. If that happened I don't know how I'd react. But in that nearly impossible hypothetical world I'd probably want to ask questions. Though there's far better minds than mine to ask questions.

Yeah, I kind of pigeon holed the discussion by referring strictly to "intelligent life", but any life would be great to identify. Isn't there some evidence that life existed on Mars?

I remember some of the evolutionary terms from my college biology course, like convergent, divergent, etc. But that course strictly concerned life on Earth. I think it's awesome that there are scientists who study these things.