NASA Researcher Proposes New Theory For Why Aliens Haven’t Contacted Us

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00:00NASA Researcher proposes new theory for why aliens haven't contacted us.

00:05If there are aliens out there in the vast universe, why haven't they contacted us?

00:10A new theory suggests they attempted but found their technology isn't vastly superior to ours, eventually giving up.

00:16This concept is presented by Dr. Robin Corbett, a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland,

00:22based at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

00:24The idea is that they're more advanced, but not much more advanced.

00:28It's like having an iPhone 42 rather than an iPhone 17, said Dr. Robin Corbett.

00:33This feels more possible, more natural, because it's not proposing anything very extreme.

00:39He feels that it is a more likely explanation for why we haven't been contacted by aliens than the Fermi Paradox,

00:46the discrepancy between the lack of compelling evidence of alien civilizations and extraterrestrial life

00:51and the high likelihood of their existence in the vast universe.

00:54Instead, he suggests the principle of radical mundanity,

00:59the theory that the universe contains more modest civilizations similar to ours,

01:03and none have achieved technology levels sufficient to accomplish large-scale astro-engineering

01:08or lack the desire to do so.

01:11Dr. Corbett also suggested that Earth is not likely to be a very interesting place to visit

01:15if there are other, more interesting extraterrestrial civilizations out there.

01:19That doesn't mean that they haven't tried to contact us much in the way we currently do.

01:24It's just that they have nowhere near the super science levels that we imagine them to possess.

01:29They don't have faster than light.

01:31They don't have machines based on dark energy or dark matter or black holes.

01:35They're not harnessing new laws of physics, said Dr. Corbett.

01:39However, not everyone agrees with Dr. Corbett's radical mundanity theory.

01:42Professor Michael Garrett, the director of the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics

01:47at the University of Manchester, is one of them.

01:50It projects a very human-like apathy onto the rest of the cosmos.

01:54I find it hard to believe that all intelligent life would be so uniformly dull, he said.

02:00He suggests in another new research paper that there is

02:03a more adventurous explanation of the Fermi paradox

02:06that other, post-biological civilizations advance so rapidly

02:10that they slip beyond our capacity to perceive them.