Radical Mundanity: Quiet Civilizations, Modest Tech, and the SETI Challenge

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Robin Corbet’s radical mundanity hypothesis argues that intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way may be only modestly more advanced than us, so they become bored and stop trying to contact us, making detectable signals rare and contact less dramatic, a view debated by Michael Garrett and Michael Bohlander.

‘Bored aliens’: has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth?
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‘Bored aliens’: has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth?

Astrophysicist proposes a ‘radically mundane’ theory for why humans have yet to encounter extraterrestrials