On: Odds of communicating with 36 other possible intel...

[rwmj]

> We have no clue how likely it was at Earth that life developed at all. Maybe it was just a chain of many lucky coincidences that happen once in 10 billion years. How is distribution any relevant then?

Incidentally this is the "Rare Earth" hypothesis. There's a rather depressing book on this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rare-Earth-Complex-Uncommon-Univers...