BUT ... the angle of incidence is not the angle between the light ray and the mirror. It's the angle between the light ray and the NORMAL to the mirror. The 'normal' is the line that's perpendicular to the mirror.
B. The angle the light ray makes as it strikes the surface.
Explanation:
Angle of the incidence is the angle that incident light ray will make with the normal to the surface at which light will strike. The surface is reflecting surface and here it follow the law of reflection
As per law of reflection of light angle of incidence with respect to the normal must be equal to the angle of reflection with normal in other direction.
So we can say that
angle of incidence = angle of reflection
so here we can say that the correct answer would be
B. The angle the light ray makes as it strikes the surface.
so the light ray will reflect at the same angle as that of angle of incidence given in it
The second part of the question can not be fully answered because it is not proven that there is or isn’t others life forms in this universe. personallyi think that there is but whatva