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The Milky Way is home to millions of potentially habitable planets — and approximately four of them may harbor evil alien civilizations that would invade Earth if they could, new research posted to the preprint database arXiv suggests.

©Provided by Live Scienceartist’s impression of an alien spaceship near Earth

The new paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, poses a peculiar question: What are the odds that humans could one day contact a hostile alien civilization that’s capable of invading our planet?

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To answer this, sole study author Alberto Caballero — a doctoral student in conflict resolution at the University of Vigo in Spain — began by looking back at human history before looking out to the stars.

“This paper attempts to provide an estimation of the prevalence of…

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Russia’s state TV host and guests have said that World War 3 has started and noted Ukraine could be just the beginning of a potentially larger conflict with the West.

©Alexander Nemenov/Getty ImagesRussian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 16, 2022. World War 3 has started, says Russian TV as Ukraine called a ‘rehearsal’.

The Daily Beast‘s Julia Davis shared a video Wednesday of a political scientist, commentators, politicians and the Russian state TV host speaking about the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.

“Russian propagandists and government officials look beyond Ukraine and threaten the collective West on Kremlin-controlled state television: ‘WWIII had started.’ ‘Expect us,'” she wroteon Twitter as she shared the video.

While the guests and the host make these claims…