This article is a breathless rush which conflates SETI with exploring the solar system. I can't speak for Elon Musk, but I highly doubt he wants to land a Space

This article is a breathless rush which conflates SETI with exploring the solar system. I can't speak for Elon Musk, but I highly doubt he wants to land a SpaceX crew on Mars to meet intelligent life (obviously finding any life would be an astonishing discovery, plenty to go down in history). Yuri Milner might have a little more luck in that regard with Breakthrough Starshot, if it works (just in the sense that it's slightly - though only very slightly - more likely there'd be intelligent life in another solar system). The universe is big - my instinct is there's lots of life out there, likely even lots of intelligent life, but we're all so spread out it'd be remarkable to find one another...