Article Why aliens are (probably) too lazy to make first contact

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https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/aliens...-mundanity

EXCERPT: Rather than assuming that advanced civilisations are hiding from us, are transcendent beings we can't begin to understand, or have simply gone extinct, Corbet suggested that alien societies might plateau at modest technological levels and even grow bored with exploration.

Applying a theory of what he called 'radical mundanity', Corbet wrote that “the most mundane explanation(s), if physically feasible, is/are are most likely to be correct.”

In this “less terrifying” Universe, there may be a modest number of technological civilisations scattered through the Milky Way, none of which have achieved or desired the galaxy-spanning capabilities imagined by science fiction.

That means no Dyson spheres, no planet-wide laser beacons and no fleets of probes zipping across the vastness of space.

Even if interstellar travel were technically possible, Corbet wrote, “the benefits obtained must outweigh the cost and potential risks.”

Eventually, any civilisation might find that “not much new was found from each encounter” with other alien civilisations and lose motivation to keep searching – a galactic version of scientific burnout... (MORE - missing details)

[Zinjanthropos]

Google:

A Marconi radio signal will leave the Milky Way galaxy in approximately 50,000 to 75,000 years, but will become undetectable long before that time due to signal degradation.

I think it makes sense to ask why are we even trying to make contact? We are aliens to other tech civilizations and we are looking but sooner or later we’ll stop….imo

[Magical Realist]

Applying a theory of what he called 'radical mundanity', Corbet wrote that “the most mundane explanation(s), if physically feasible, is/are are most likely to be correct.”

That may be true in the short term, but we have to be open to a universe with lots of surprising tricks up its sleeve and a well nigh infinite number of occasions to use them. The evolution of life on our planet is far from anything mundane. The emergence of consciousness, of language, of science, and AI, even less so. It's like once we get on the roller coaster of the exceptional and extraordinary things only get more exciting and unpredictable from there. Intelligent living organisms on other planets would fall into that same category, spurred on as it were by some inner creative force that defies all probabilities. And it is the nature of life to generate novelty out of its own incessant curiosity. "We didn't start the fire, It was always burn'n since the world's been turn'n.."