I don't believe in luck. I think luck is preparation meeting opportunity, but I felt like I had somewhat prepared myself, but that I had happenstanced into it.
So if something happens at one pulsar, you wouldn't expect it to be happening at the other pulsar just by happenstance unless there was something passing through the entire galaxy.
Economist Florian Ederer tells the story of how he got pulled into a fight over an anonymous economics message board as a sort of string of happenstances.