Yes, exactly, SDO does not claim anything about the filter beyond that universes with one are very likely, provided we take their probability distribution for the parameters in the Drake equation, so it’s not surprising that we might be the only ones in the observable universe. The filter can be anywhere relative to us.
Yes, exactly, SDO does not claim anything about the filter beyond that universes with one are very likely, provided we take their probability distribution for the parameters in the Drake equation, so it’s not surprising that we might be the only ones in the observable universe. The filter can be anywhere relative to us.