Study: There May Be as Many as Four Evil Civilizations in Our Galaxy

There are as many as four malicious alien civilizations in the home of the universe, according to a new paper.

It is not a leap to assume that aliens are warlike and prone to invade if they are similar to humans.

Vice notes that the sole author of the paper is a PhD student at the University of Vigo. He has demonstrated his ability in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence by publishing a paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology about the potential origins of the notorious WOW! signal.

Part thought experiment and part game theory is also interesting because of the way he reached his conclusions: by using a formula that takes into consideration how technologic advances seem to make civilizations less likely to invade one.

This alien-focused conflict resolution researcher used known data about the ways humans have historically invaded each others territories and compared it to the number of assumed habitable exoplanets in the Milky Way.

The paper was based on life as we know it. 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.

That is a fair point. First, that an extraterrestrial civilization would be interested in invading us, and second, that technological advancement would make them less warlike and not more so.

If aliens think anything like us, their ability to travel the universe would be enough to stop us.

There are malicious Extraterrestrial Civilizations in the universe.