Aliens may have stopped trying to contact humans because they are bored

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 our own.

The idea, known as the “radical mundanity” principle, is proposed by Dr. Robin Corbet, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

In 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.

According to Dr. Corbet, aliens may be capable of sending powerful signals or probes - but the energy and timescales required, potentially spanning mil