Four 'Malicious' Alien Civilisations In The Milky Way Could Attack Earth: Study

We still haven't found signs of intelligent life in the cosmos. It would be quite self-absorbed to assume that we're the only intelligent life in all of space. But not all alien life could be friendly.

Now, a wild new paper says that are at least four "malicious" alien civilisations living in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Mind you, the paper hasn't been peer-reviewed yet and the bizarre calculation was done by Spanish researcher Alberto Caballero.

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Caballero is not an astrophysicist, but is instead a conflict resolution PhD student at University of Vigo in Spain, Vice reported. But he has written on alien life before for University of Cambridge's peer-reviewed International Journal of Astrobiology.

Why four malicious civilisations?

To make his calculations, Caballero used a formula that takes into consideration how advances in technology seem to make civilisations less likely to attack each other.

He used data about how human beings have historically attacked each others' territories. By adding potentially habitable exoplanets in Milky Way into the mix, the researcher found that there could be at least four hostile alien civilisations in our galaxy. Even then, he found that Earth has more chances of being destroyed by an asteroid than by alien species.

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"We don’t know the mind of extraterrestrials. An extraterrestrial civilization may have a brain with a different chemical composition and they might not have our empathy or they might have more psychopathological behaviors," Caballero told Vice.

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Caballero claimed to have done the paper "based only on life as we know it." There's nothing we know about any intelligent alien species. But there's no way humans are the only ones to have reached this point in evolution in the entire galaxy.

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References

Koebler, J. (2022, May 26). There Are 4 ‘Malicious Extraterrestrial Civilizations’ in Milky Way, Researcher Estimates. Vice.?

Al-Sibai, N. (2022, June 1). Study: There May Be as Many as Four Evil Civilizations in Our Galaxy. Futurism.?