> Only 12ly away and that one has maybe two habitable planets? That tells me the universe is teaming with potential homes for life.
This seems like the birthday problem in statistics [0] - that if you have 30 people, it's likely that two people have the same birthday.
However, the problem that could also exist (in our corner of the galaxy) that everyone else has a birthday far away from ours, and nobody else shares a birthday on the same day with anyone else. (in other words, we happen to be the two people who share the same corner of the galaxy, but everyone else is far away and separate - i.e. no other clustering).
Not disagreeing with you, and it does give us hope, but randomness is a bch that can make everything look different from how it actually is.
This seems like the birthday problem in statistics [0] - that if you have 30 people, it's likely that two people have the same birthday.
However, the problem that could also exist (in our corner of the galaxy) that everyone else has a birthday far away from ours, and nobody else shares a birthday on the same day with anyone else. (in other words, we happen to be the two people who share the same corner of the galaxy, but everyone else is far away and separate - i.e. no other clustering).
Not disagreeing with you, and it does give us hope, but randomness is a bch that can make everything look different from how it actually is.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem