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I'm guessing they assume aliens to be scattered homogeneously around the galaxy at some probable density?
by semi-extrinsic 10y ago
I'm guessing they assume aliens to be scattered homogeneously around the galaxy at some probable density?
- jerf 10y agoI'm assuming "journalist misheard something and isn't intimately familiar enough with space scales to know it". I don't really mean the latter as a criticism... however much fun it may be, there isn't much practical value to knowing the Milky Way is ~100,000lys in diameter.