Nasa scientist’s new theory on why aliens stopped trying to contact us
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Other civilizations are out there. But they're not as smart as we think. "Contact would be quite disappointing," says NASA scientist Robin Corbet.


Nasa scientist’s new theory on why aliens stopped trying to contact us
Astrophysicist suggests ‘radical mundanity’ is answer to the ‘great silence’ in the galaxy
On October 15, 2025, NASA inspired a wave of debate following the publication of a study relayed by The Guardian and The Independent. This "theory of radical mundaneity" suggests that aliens would never have ceased to exist: they would simply have stopped trying to contact us. This hypothesis revives the discussion on Fermi's famous paradox: if intelligent life is so likely in space, why is no signal received? When space becomes boring: "radical…
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