An Astronomer Says He Knows Why Aliens Haven?t Contacted Us Yet

A lot of folks, even scientists, simply want to believe in advanced alien life. To cover the disappointment of not finding any, new theories keep cropping up as to just why we haven’t become BFFs with aliens. The latest comes from Frederick Walter, an astronomy professor from New York’s Stony Brook University. It features the idea that the universe has zapped the aliens.

In a theory Walter shared with the Daily Mail, he claims that gamma-ray bursts—a space eruption full of radiation that delivers the most energetic form of light in the universe that can be a million trillion times brighter than the sun—could have eliminated potential alien lifeforms.