“six millennia“ doesn’t seem that long on the scale of the universe

The claim is that humans would have to monitor for six millennia to detect a signal like this as a result of random interference/noise. The implication is that the signal is probably real, since humans have been monitoring for much less than 6000 years.

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dghlsakjg 6 days ago | parent [-]

A random distribution means that you have the same chance of hearing it in year 1 as you do in year 6k, right?

Until there is a second one, there is nothing to statistically distinguish this from random noise.

	▲	staticman2 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is something philosophers debate, right? Similar to the Doomsday Argument asking whether it's reasonable to assume our lives are in the middle of the human species timeline rather than at the end: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument