‘Bored aliens’: has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth?
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#70RZ7)
Astrophysicist proposes a radically mundane' theory for why humans have yet to encounter extraterrestrials
For centuries, great thinkers have pondered why, given the hundreds of billions of planets in the galaxy, we have seen no compelling signs of intelligent life beyond Earth.
Now, scientists are mulling an intriguing possibility: if aliens exist, their technology may be only marginally better than ours. And having explored their cosmic neighbourhood for a while, they simply got bored and stopped bothering, making it difficult to detect them.
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