Expected time before Farmer Brown is abducted? Farmer Brown is standing in the middle of his perfectly circular field feeling
very content. It is midnight and there is no moon and unknown to the farmer,
Martian zoologists are landing randomly at points on the circumference of his
field. They land at one minute intervals, starting at midnight. As soon as
there are martians at points A,B,C such that triangle ABC contains the center
of the field, Farmer Brown will be teleported to the waiting space-ship and
transported off to spend the rest of his life as an exhibit in a Martian zoo.
What is the expected time until he is abducted?
My approach: 
If lets say the farmer gets abducted after k Martians land. This implies that the first k-1 martians all lie in the same semicircle. Also, the kth martian lies on the circle such that the far away martians in the initial k-1 martians, and the kth martian form a triangle that contains the center of the circle. 
The probability that the first (k-1) martians don't contain the center of the circle is 

(see here). Also, the probability that the kth martian makes the center lie in a triangle formed by the kth martian and the ends of initial k-1 martians should be 1/4, since this is equivalent to the situation of only 3 martians. 
So the expected value of k, i.e. no. of martians after which the farmer gets abducted, should be

The answer I get from this, is 3.5. Whereas the actual answer is 5. In the solution in that link, I don't understand where does the right hand side of the  probability equation come from. Where is my approach wrong? 

So you know that the probability that $k-1$ martians do not hold the farmer is
$$G(k-1)=\frac{k-1}{2^{k-2}}$$
Then the probability that $k$ martians do not hold the farmer is
$$G(k)=\frac{k}{2^{k-1}}$$
and the probability that the $k$-th martian catches the farmer is
$$P(k)=G(k-1)-G(k)=\frac{k-2}{2^{k-1}}$$
Finally
$$E[K]=\sum_{k=3}^{\infty}k\frac{k-2}{2^{k-1}}=5$$
