The distance argument always assumes that someone would be traveling in a straight line from A to B. If you take the leap that there is the possibility of life elsewhere, then going a bit further to consider that they're not confined to travel in the equivalent of a Yugo shouldn't challenge you.
Time or inter-dimensional travel and wormholes / black holes and so on figure into how someone could get here from anywhere in moments instead of light years.
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Time or inter-dimensional travel and wormholes / black holes and so on figure into how someone could get here from anywhere in moments instead of light years.
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