Space boffins concern alert on barely worrying intergalactic alien ‘Star Wars’

Space is teeming with alien species at different stages of evolution and we should dodge them all to avoid triggering real life Star Wars, according to a top cosmic boffin.

Shreedhara Somanath – the aerospace engineer driving India’s lunar explorations – said there are `definitely’ ETs out there in the universe. But unlike many space pioneers he does not want to meet them in case it sparks an intergalactic war.

The 61-year-old boff – who masterminded the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s recent soft landing on the Moon’s south pole – said when two life forms come into contact `one has to dominate the other’.

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If one of those was the human race it would be ‘catastrophic’, he said. Insteads humans are better keeping their distance from aliens.

Shreedhara told a podcast extraterrestrials exist ‘absolutely without a doubt’ – and they may visit Earth to study humans.

“There are definitely aliens out there in the universe,’’ he said.

“Aliens mean living systems and cultures in other parts of the universe.

“If they are ahead in technology by just a thousand years, or 10,000 years, they would definitely visit us.

“Biology is such that all life forms on Earth are connected in some way – plants, bacteria, fish, animals and humans. We all evolved from a common ancestor.

“But if something evolved on another planet it may have developed in an entirely different way.

“It may not have the same genomic structure or protein structure which can be extremely dangerous.

“When two life forms come into contact one has to dominate the other. This is the nature of life – one will not allow the other to survive.

“It must surpass and destroy the other. Unless these aliens become aware of this and realise that we are different, choosing to remain disconnected in terms of our bodies or chemistry, it will be catastrophic.

“I would be happy to never be in contact with aliens.’’

Though the universe is filled with billions of celestial bodies, galaxies, exoplanets, and stars scientists currently believe the only place harbouring life is Earth.

But man has only explored a tiny part of the Solar System which stretches for 10 trillion miles.

It has been 52 years since astronauts set foot on the Moon which is a comparatively close 240,000 miles away.

Shreedhara said he believes there will be multiple alien civilisations spread out in the universe that are at different stages of technological advancement.

Some scientists believe there may be as many as 36.

They are likely interacting with the universe in ways human beings cannot perceive.

“Imagine there is a civilisation out there just 200 years behind you and another civilisation 1,000 years ahead of you,” he said.

“Alien systems which are 1,000 years more progressive than us will always have been here.’’

He said they would be `much more evolved’ than humans and beyond our current understanding or detection capabilities.

As human beings work to advance their technology and reach a better understanding of the universe over time other civilisations that have been around for many more years likely already know much more and are living a life we cannot understand.

Human beings, he said, are relatively younger in the cosmos and so such civilisations may reside in the universe that are far ahead of us.

So while we are still trying to find them, they are likely around us and exist in ways we do not know yet.

Shreedhara, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, warned meeting them was too dangerous.

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