Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from nearby star

Re:Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from... by happytoexplain on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:23PM (#25487846)

For each given distance, yes, but the property that's interesting to humans is binary: "near" vs "far". It's also subjective, but almost any definition would put most of the galaxy in the "far" category, thereby making it more likely that a random location is "far".

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Re:Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from... by usgroup on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:40PM (#25487993)

I’m actually not sure that’s what he meant. I think he meant that if you picked two planets to have life on them at random, and the pairwise distances between planets forms a uniform distribution, then the distance between the two planets randomly chosen is equally likely to be any distance.

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