{"id":3526,"date":"2025-10-16T13:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/aliens-may-have-stopped-trying-to-contact-humans-because-they-are-bored\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:07:48","slug":"aliens-may-have-stopped-trying-to-contact-humans-because-they-are-bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/aliens-may-have-stopped-trying-to-contact-humans-because-they-are-bored\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens may have stopped trying to contact humans because they are bored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-10-16 13:07:45<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Aliens may have stopped trying to communicate with humanity because they are bored.<BR><br \/>\nA NASA scientist has also suggested the extra-terrestrial creatures are using technology as limited as our own.<BR><br \/>\nThe idea, known as the \u201cradical mundanity\u201d principle, is proposed by Dr. Robin Corbet, a senior research scientist at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.<BR><br \/>\nIn a new paper titled A Less Terrifying Universe? Mundanity as an Explanation for the Fermi Paradox, Dr. Corbet argues that extraterrestrial civilisations (ETCs) likely exist but are neither particularly advanced nor motivated to contact others.<BR><br \/>\nAccording to Dr. Corbet, aliens may be capable of sending powerful signals or probes &#8211; but the energy and timescales required, potentially spanning millions or even billions of years, make it an impractical effort. <BR><br \/>\nHe explained to The Guardian: &#8220;If there are a reasonable number of ETCs in the galaxy, Earth is not likely to be a very interesting place to visit.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nHis theory challenges the Fermi paradox, which questions why we have not yet encountered evidence of intelligent life, despite the vastness of the universe. <BR><br \/>\nBased on the Drake equation, there should be plenty of civilisations near enough and advanced enough to contact us. <BR><br \/>\nYet, Dr. Corbet says it\u2019s more likely that none have achieved the level of \u201csuper-science\u201d required for galaxy-spanning communication or colonisation.<BR><br \/>\nHe added: &#8220;The idea is that they\u2019re more advanced, but not much more advanced. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It\u2019s like having an iPhone 42 rather than an iPhone 17.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nDr. Corbet believes there\u2019s a \u201creasonable chance\u201d humans could one day detect an extraterrestrial civilisation &#8211; though the discovery might \u201cleave us slightly disappointed.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-10-16 13:07:45 Aliens may have stopped trying to communicate with humanity because they are bored. A NASA scientist has also suggested the extra-terrestrial creatures are using technology as limited as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}