Protons are quite tough nuts to crack. I've written to CERN to suggest they see what happens when they accelerate two Ford Transits into each other at the LHC.
Here they are. I've almost collected them all. Buggers to stick in the album, unless you hold your breath and use tweezers.
They might just be watching and thinking ‘what a load of idiots, don’t interrupt them, let’s see what the idiots do next...’
The Drake equation is an attempt to calculate the likelihood of there being an extra-terrestrial civilisation around at the same time/area as humans https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation