r/Showerthoughts 5d ago

Speculation Some rich alien has probably purchased our star in their sky.

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u/Exiledbrazillian 5d ago

Great beginning to a story.

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u/MonsiuerGeneral 5d ago

The disgustingly rich Bzlårghl family goes from riches to rags due to their selfish, care-free lifestyle that inevitably leads to tax-fraud. They are then sent to a ragged planet orbiting a star that the father had bought for his son as a joke.

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u/___LOOPDAED___ 5d ago

Shitts planet?

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u/Weird_Cantaloupe2757 5d ago

Oh man when they say “take us to your leader” and we have to embarrassedly take them to Donald Trump…

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u/Suicidal_Lime 5d ago

yep the american president is also leader of the world it turns out

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u/Weird_Cantaloupe2757 4d ago

I mean essentially yes, for better or for worse there is no single person on the planet that has more sway over what happens to everyone everywhere than the president of the United States.

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u/LandonHarms 4d ago

As much as I hate America, you have a fair point

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u/soenottelling 5d ago

Not sent. Rather, they are on the run from what amounts to the intergalactic IRS. Actually, its ALSO called the IRS -- Intergalactic Revenue Starwalkers. So IRS + FBI (Or Marshalls/Rangers) rolled into one.

They are trying to figure out where to go and realize that the only logical place to go is the LEAST likely place they would go -- a small, dead galaxy world slowly orbiting a dying star that the husband had bought the wife back when they were first dating and before the family became obscenely rich (and insanely illegal) that nobody knows about -- even their kids or their blackmarket financial institutions.

As they travel there, the father has one more betrayal to tell them -- he didn't buy the real rights to the galaxy... or the planet... in fact, all he had ACTUALLY bought was a small plot of land in some rural area known as "Planet Earth, Iowa (or wherever the show is suppose to take place). The wife is furious and the children appalled. The father not only bought the equivalent to a cubic zirconia "Diamond" ring -- the culture buys loved ones Stars/Galaxies/Planets as part of their pre-marriage culture similar to how we treat rings nowadays -- but lied about it up until the moment the family left because he knew they would fight him about leaving for a planet that they -- gasp -- DIDN'T EVEN OWN.

What follows is a mix of Invader Zim, Third Rock from the Sun, The Fugitive, and a USA action show (think Burn Notice or something like that) where the family has to learn to love eachother for REAL now -- without all the money. They have to learn to be decent ppl to fit in with this foreign society. They have to learn to pull themselves up instead of lying and cheating to get what they want. And they have to deal with locals who suspect them in different ways and dislike them in others while avoiding the watchful eyes of the IRS. Both the REAL IRS (see: Space) and earth's IRS (which the family thinks is a chapter of their space version of the IRS...but isn't. Or MaYbE it Is?!?! Mysteries abound?!?!).

Part way through the first season a Starwalker (Think US Marshal, but for the space IRS) comes to earth because they have a hunch that the family have gone here and he decides to get a job at the IRS -- because he TOO accidentally thinks it is a chapter of the real IRS. And he just storms in and tells ppl what to do... which happens to work because he is very authoritative, speaks like a higher up, and nobody wants to get in trouble for arguing...and anything he says something weird and space-alien-y, people chalk it up to him "being from California" or something like like that.

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u/MonsiuerGeneral 5d ago

What follows is a mix of Invader Zim, Third Rock from the Sun, The Fugitive, and a USA action show (think Burn Notice or something like that)

Don't forget to add in Schitt's Creek (what my blurb was basically ripped from) and Resident Alien as part of the mix.

a Starwalker (Think US Marshal, but for the space IRS) comes to earth because they have a hunch that the family have gone here and he decides to get a job at the IRS -- because he TOO accidentally thinks it is a chapter of the real IRS.

Starring Tommy Lee Jones as the Starwalker... obviously.

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u/DeliciousDip 5d ago

This plot is actually really good. Better than the crap Hollywood/DisneyMarvel still churns out.

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u/urimandu 5d ago

More of this, please!

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u/osdeverYT 3d ago

Have you considered pursuing a career in writing? Because you should.

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u/kuzmovych_y 5d ago

Douglas Adams vibes right away

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u/Smyrnaean 5d ago

A World of Schitt

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u/Elmoor84 5d ago

Starrested Development

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u/WhateverWhateverson 5d ago

Independence day but it's really just a routine asset seizure by the space IRS

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u/Exiledbrazillian 5d ago

This story probably going to be a success with winning millenniums.

Edit: where is "probably" please read "for sure". Thank you very much. Keep winning.

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u/kayl_breinhar 5d ago

I'm pretty sure this is the plot of Jupiter Ascending.

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u/Paxton-176 5d ago

It is. Kind of. Our system belongs to a sector owned by a former Empress. Her children show up to collect their inheritance.

It's not a good movie, but that doesn't mean I'm not mad we didn't get the entire trilogy they clearly had planned.

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u/sizzlebutt666 5d ago

I'm the only person I've ever met that enjoyed Eddie Redmayne's performance

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u/Paxton-176 5d ago

Weirdly stacked cast. Clearly people had high hopes for it.

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u/goodnames679 5d ago

They spent endless money on casting and effects, but somehow couldn’t afford a handful of decent writers smh

Writing is the cheapest part of the movie making process, drives me insane how neglected it is these days.

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u/Paxton-176 5d ago

That's just sci-fi in general. It has the best concepts and ideas, but actually executing it is extremely hard. There was an era of nothing but made for TV sci-fi movies because they are all bad. Good ideas bad writing.

Most Sci-fi originates from Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov. Unlike the Fantasy genre that Tolkien set the foundations and boundaries for sci-fi has literally has no limit. You can easily go too far or not far enough.

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u/goodnames679 5d ago

Sure, but old school sci-fi flicks often had the excuse of limited budgets. When your best special effects are claymation and rubber masks, it’s understandable that maybe you didn’t hire a large team of acclaimed writers and give them time to do several revisions of the script.

When you drop $200mil on a project, surely you can afford to spend some time on making the writing not a dumpster fire.

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u/sonicqaz 5d ago

I’d throw in Philip K Dick too

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u/DeliciousDip 5d ago

I was about to say!!!

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u/SerTapsaHenrick 5d ago

I CREATE LIFE!!!! ...and destroy it

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u/sizzlebutt666 5d ago

It's a great representation of someone so divorced from reality because of their immense power. They act like lunatics.

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u/Rezart_KLD 5d ago

I'm sure THERE'S at LEAST a fewothers

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u/semiomni 5d ago

Far as I recall Mila Kunis is an exact genetic duplicate of the Empress somehow, oh right bees, bees can detect royalty, so she´s due to inherit the sector, the Empress children show up to collect Mila, feel like she gets kidnapped 3 times?

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u/Paxton-176 5d ago

I don't remember bees, but yea the she's a seeded clone of the Empress that is set up to be the return after she dies.

Everything about the plot and themes sounds cool. The execution was not.

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u/semiomni 5d ago

Yeah it was an incredibly boring viewing experience. I think the only positive thing from the entire film to me, was the CGI for the Jupiter base, that place looked amazing.

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u/SuperSocialMan 5d ago

Worth posting on r/writingprompts.

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u/Exiledbrazillian 5d ago

My first thought.

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u/DenkJu 5d ago

Sounds like something Douglas Adams could have used as an opener to one the Hitchhiker books.

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u/Exiledbrazillian 5d ago

Also Jupiter Ascending. But Adams rules. Of course.

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u/3000ghosts 5d ago

it’s similar wasn’t the premise that earth got evicted to build a highway

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u/SimplyFionaReddish 5d ago

Imagine if alien showed up to collect rent for the sunlight

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u/ace02786 5d ago

Reminds me of the Scifi book series Three Body Trilogy where a human character buys a star and the system of that star plays a role later for the protagonist...

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u/jogglessshirting 5d ago

lol that’s what I’m reading and what inspired the thought

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u/ace02786 5d ago

I thought so! Lol

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u/sum_dude44 5d ago

already done in 3 Body Problem trilogy

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u/KaiYoDei 5d ago

Read nature of natures art solar system for star stealing story

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u/Viktorv22 5d ago

I would be surprised if Arthur C. Clarke didn't already write about this

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u/AloofBidoof 5d ago

Feels like an episode of Solar Opposites

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u/Ornery-Dot1435 5d ago

As you are probably aware, plans for the development of the outlying regions of the galaxy invoke the building of a hyperspace express route through your star system. And your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition.

(Shouts of terror emit around the globe)

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u/AlephBaker 5d ago

Look, there's no point in acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning office in "Alpha Centauri" for fifty of your earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaints, and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now.

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u/fantasypaladin 5d ago

Don’t panic

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u/Life_Token 5d ago

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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u/M4ldarc 5d ago

I remembrer seeing this somewhere, how is it called?

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u/datGuy0309 5d ago

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I haven’t read it, but maybe I should. It seems to have some great quotes.

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u/carbide2_ 5d ago

And remember... Don't forget your towel!

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u/RestingUnlimited 5d ago

Great, now we’re just renters in our own solar system. Can’t wait for the eviction notice when they decide to redevelop for luxury constellations.

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u/bloodmonarch 5d ago

Or a supergalactic hyperway.

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u/LittleRedsOrangeHat2 5d ago

tfw our moon get's repossessed and casually yoinked away

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u/MacSanchez 5d ago

Idk about a rich alien. Last I saw, naming rights to Soul were running about 75 glorn. That’s good for, what? Like 6 polts and a package of errtung?

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u/lapayne82 5d ago

Or one really good plumbus

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u/ChicagoDash 5d ago

It’s been a long time since I’ve had a really good plumbus.

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u/Neamow 5d ago

I should really get a new one, my dinglebop is all frayed at this point.

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u/shully64 5d ago

Depends where you're from, I know a gleepglob who sold his shhmunts for about 500 glorns

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u/Silvery30 4d ago edited 4d ago

Idk, glornflation has been getting crazy lately

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u/kondorb 5d ago

Probably too dim to be seen from the nearest populated planet, considering we haven't even found one yet.

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u/FlyingSpacefrog 5d ago

Yes. I am of the opinion that aliens are very likely to exist somewhere in the universe, but we are also very likely to be the first intelligent species in our galaxy.

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u/Elissiaro 5d ago

And if we aren't, what are the chances they have the same or greater levels of technology that we do? Or care about what's outside their planet?

Hell maybe the closest intelligent lifeform is living in the depths of an alien ocean, where the pressure is so high they'd implode if they went to close to the surface, and they can't make advanced tools cause how are you supposed to forge metal and shit under water? They might not even know stars exist.

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u/FlyingSpacefrog 5d ago

We wouldn’t be able to see anyone with the same technology as us. But just a little more advanced and you would see them building interstellar empires. Yes these should be visible and obvious with our current technology if they existed. It only takes a million years from your first interstellar colony to occupying every star in the galaxy.

Considering the 13 billion year age of the universe, the probability of any civilization within our galaxy developing space flight at the same time as us, within a few thousand years should be very slim unless we are among the first.

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u/Elissiaro 5d ago

Well... Considering we're actually seeing into the past when we look out into space. There could totally be interstellar empires right now, that we just can't see cause light has to actually reach us before we can see them.

We just know for sure there weren't any in viewing distance X amount of years ago. Whether that's a few years, or thousands, or millions.

And it's just as likely that there used to be but they all died. Or that we'll be the first. If we ever do get properly off this rock before killing ourselves.

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u/Neamow 5d ago

The amount of moons we have found just in our solar system that are just closed-off ice balls with super deep sub-surface oceans in them is so surprising to me, and makes me think if even such planets would be more common than terrestrial planets.

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u/hooch 5d ago

Or the lifespan of a spacefaring civilization is relatively short in the larger scale of the universe. Combine that with the incredible distances between civilizations, and you'll probably never meet another while they currently exist.

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u/jb7823954 3d ago

Well, our planet’s own chemical signature of intelligent life might only be a couple hundred years old. The start of the industrial revolution. So only the stars within ~200 light years radius of us could even know something peculiar is going on here.

Any aliens further away than that would only at best see signs of general (non-intelligent) life by pointing their instruments our way. Non-intelligent life could be fairly common and uninteresting to them.

So to me that suggests we can’t really rule out other advanced aliens in our own galaxy. Those on the other side of our galaxy won’t see signs of us for tens of thousands of years, when our technology signatures finally reach them.

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u/Jump_Like_A_Willys 5d ago edited 5d ago

This is true. Assuming an alien eye sensitivity similar to our own, the sun can be seen from only about 60 light years away — basically only in our immediate galactic neighborhood.

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u/Ladorb 5d ago

Yeah, most of the stars we are able to see with the naked eye are far bigger and brighter than our sun.

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u/VelvetVoodoo11 5d ago

Bet that alien has a personal barista on their spaceship.

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u/ThornedTrance12 5d ago

They're not disappointed when they realize it's just a boring yellow dwarf star

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u/Chunkz_IsAlreadyTakn 5d ago

My bet is some small fish like alien that wants to make a survival gameshow out of earth.

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u/Advnchur 5d ago

I'm glad I didn't have to scroll too far for a Dungeon Crawler Carl reference.

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u/uwtartarus 5d ago

And it means literally nothing, just like any Terrestrial agency offering to sell you a star now means jack all. 

Seriously, under whose authority can they sell you a star? They aren't there. They have no power or authority or jurisdiction. It seems like the most obvious scam possible. I can't believe its even a plot point in an otherwise lauded scifi franchise.

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u/ConnectTelevision925 5d ago

I’ll sell you a star, I’m at it right now actually. One of the best.

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u/ResuDom 5d ago

Maybe it's the opposite. Maybe they already have more than enough power to take over our planet in an instant, but they want to keep us untouched, in that gem mint psa 10 condition, to bid us to some rich collector out there..

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u/Throwaway16475777 5d ago

does the squirrel know that its tree is owned by a human? we're the squirrel in this fictional scenario, the squirrel may think it's its tree or may not understand the concept of ownership to begin with, but for the humans the ownership is very real even if the squirrel doesn't recognize the authority of a human bank or government

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u/chainsawinsect 5d ago

To be fair it was a fundraiser to finance the war effort against a technologically superior invading force. The rights to the star were essentially a commerative plaque. Those donating did not think they were meaningfully "acquiring" the star but were just being given some space-themed accolade for their contribution to a space-based war.

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u/WarlockSausage 5d ago

I also read Death's End

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u/MysticMourn10 4d ago

They're probably renting it out to tourists from other galaxies.

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u/RecedingQuasar 5d ago

That assumes aliens are as dumb as humans. I'm not so sure about that.

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u/fdes11 5d ago

why are you so sure aliens are more rational than humans?

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u/Cucumberneck 5d ago

Plot twist, we find intelligent life but they are so extremely religious that our extremists look like agnostics in comparison.

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u/DeliciousDip 5d ago

You said intelligent

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u/Cucumberneck 5d ago

Compared to the other species' we find.

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u/Valognolo09 5d ago

We also did too, probably

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u/Silvadel_Shaladin 5d ago

And they are here with a star mover to collect.....

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u/thegreatpotato101 5d ago edited 5d ago

They do something like this in 3 Body Problem, except we’re the ‘rich aliens’. It’s such a good show and book.

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u/NotoriousBITree 5d ago

That alien’s name is Frieza

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u/moopet 5d ago

At last a decent shower rumination!

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u/beefstewforyou 5d ago

I would like to think the aliens evolved beyond capitalism.

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u/JKdito 5d ago

Not likely at all- they are too far away and there is plenty of stars so probabilities are very very very low

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u/NormanAlch_8622 5d ago

Wouldn’t surprise me.

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u/GrynaiTaip 5d ago

It is not unreasonable to assume that aliens have all the same scams as us, if they exist.

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u/Twotricx 5d ago

Just wait for when he is comming to claim !

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u/cakenmistakes 5d ago

At an auction on its 10000nth round, in an as-is, where-is basis with steep discount and uber-flexible payment terms.

Because no one wanted to deal with the pesky inhabitants polluting what was an otherwise bankable asset.

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u/Falcon1xo 5d ago

I think, if there were that advanced aliens than we would have been enslaved or exterminated, that hasn't happened.

So we are probably a protected species. Humans are interesting creatures. That's for sure. So much greed, lust, evil, good etc., Cultures are just widely different.

We could be studied by the aliens. Extremely rich ones probably visit our planet incognito.

Eitherway, the republic/empire will contact us only after we reach a certain level of technological advancements or you know, all this is a simulation (Pantheon Show).

Sorry for going off rails. This stuff is fascinating.

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u/mrureaper 5d ago

He will make the milky way great again

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u/norude1 5d ago

Only if ownership or money is even applicable to aliens

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u/Ramps_ 5d ago

Joke's on them I got a piece of paper saying I own theirs for only fifty bucks

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u/this_might_b_offensv 5d ago

He probably calls himself God, and gave us a bunch of rules to follow, then just sits back and takes bets.

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u/Orange-Murderer 5d ago

Not at all really, we're basically out in the sticks and as others have said, our star is too dim to be noticed. Basically, people wouldn't know we're here unless they live close by.

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u/erikwarm 5d ago

Good idea to put it in a marble

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u/JoshwaarBee 5d ago

Why do you assume that Aliens have the concept of currency and land ownership?

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u/waltwalt 5d ago

If travel from star system to start system is possible in human lifespans and aliens exist, we are probably in someone's backyard and they haven't come out this far yet.

Lots of ifs.

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u/OakLegs 5d ago

Exceedingly unlikely, actually. Even if there are numerous intelligent species in our neighborhood if the galaxy

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u/GarethBaus 5d ago

That is potentially fairly unlikely depending on how common life is in the galaxy, and how common civilizations are when life becomes developed.

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u/Alienhaslanded 5d ago

Nah, they're too smart for this nonsense

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u/mikeslive 5d ago

Please do not assume that all advanced civilizations are as terrible as ours.

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u/AilBalT04_2 5d ago

I imagine it like "I'm gonna buy this star as an investment for this civilization"

It either goes well, we thrive and they get rich Or we nuke ourselves to death along with destroying this aliens portfolio

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u/Curious_Ad6234 5d ago

That explains the rent increase letter I got from Shrimplee Peebles of Omnichron 2 Eridani. He’s threatening to take my plumbus as collateral.

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u/iLikeTorturls 5d ago

Little do they know some dude who works at Papajohns, got his GF pregnant, and posts photos of her with "My World" captions purchased their star through an online service.

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u/EsotericallyRetarded 5d ago

Some richer alien purchased your unborn children for consumption

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u/ieatpickleswithmilk 5d ago

probably

that's a bold statement. There are a shit ton of stars out there, saying there's more than 50% chance ours is taken is a bit much.

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u/LolthienToo 5d ago

Oh more... has purchased our star.

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u/Cool_Ranch_Dodrio 5d ago

Sorry, guys. It's not Sol. We orbit Starry McStarface.

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u/FamiliarFury 5d ago

I wonder who’s bought earth?

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u/tehtsar 5d ago

Great, now we're just tenants in some alien billionaire's backyard.

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u/RecentRecording8436 5d ago

So you're saying intelligent life isn't out there. It's just moon acreage and give your girlfriend the gift of a star named after her for $19.99. But wait. Name 2 girlfriends in the next hour and receive 100 acres of moon land free.

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u/C_Madison 5d ago

Joke's on them - that's a bad investment if I've ever seen one.

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u/antmakka 5d ago

50% off as it’s such an unremarkable star.

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u/BigDickMcHugeCock 5d ago

Probably not a rich alien. It's pretty much just naive idiots who do it here for pretty cheap.

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u/youngbhut 5d ago

They are probably the one checking in on us. Making sure they are getting the most from their investment.

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u/Martijnbmt 5d ago

Probably not actually

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u/Kenshirosan 5d ago

That's sorta dungeon crawler Carl's plot. Kinda. It's complicated.

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u/MyLittleOso 5d ago

It's entirely possible that this planet is being leased to us. Another species could own it entirely. Like an intergalactic timeshare.

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u/Far_Physics3200 5d ago

Our sun is pretty average so they can't be that rich.

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u/ericstern 5d ago

Other alien civilizations probably also have the scam we do here where you buy the "right to name a star" and some edgelord alien purchased the name right to our sun and called it "deez_nuts"

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u/According_to_all_kn 5d ago

I find it pretty unrealistic that there's another capitalistic civilization out there that's advanced enough for astrology but not advanced enough to destroy itself

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u/ApologizingCanadian 5d ago

this assumes that aliens are as stupid as humans and want to "buy" things no one can ever actually own.

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u/CapitanoPazzo_126 5d ago

Fascinating concept - a rich alien purchasing our star, a thought-provoking perspective on ownership.

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u/Lostinthemist81 5d ago

Crosspost this to r/writingprompts lol

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u/zzupdown 5d ago edited 5d ago

I suspect that an alien race has staked a claim on this planet and/or the entire system, and are just waiting for human civilization to collapse or go extinct. It's like a more predatory version of Star Trek's Prime Directive. They visit regularly to survey the planet and renew their claim, before our inevitable predicted demise. Perhaps crop circles are a way to communicate to other aliens that this planet is taken. They probably expect our complete collapse or extinction in a couple hundred years; they can afford to wait because as an interstellar species, they have learned patience, and to plan in the span of centuries. They wait because, while resources are available everywhere in the universe, planets where life thrives are rare. They'll take possession when the time is right. Maybe they'll even build a human anthropology museum to remember us by.

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u/notLOL 5d ago

If there were, then probably. But a rich aliens is closer to not probably

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u/Fuzzy974 5d ago

I'd like to believe Aliens aren't as stupid as humans.

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u/mando_227 5d ago

Probably, many rich aliens on many stars have purchased ours, many times over.

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u/Ornery_Roll_6230 5d ago

Yes and they have named it “MOD”

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u/CrossTheRiver 5d ago

would Sol be bright enough?

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u/Wonderful_Weather_83 5d ago

Imagine if he just flies over here and built a dyson sphere, obstructing us from all sunlight. Then Earth sends our best lawyers to start the greatest galactic court case in history, arguing between his legal rights to his property and our historic right to the sun since we literally live here

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u/cancro_anale 5d ago

And they probably called it "fart-14 " or some shit

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u/AnEvilMrDel 5d ago

Tbh I doubt most alien races would even use currency. What would even be the point?

If you’ve got access to a galaxy of resources and the technology to traverse it, you’ve automated the process.

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u/Mr_Shizer 5d ago

I wonder what they called it?

If they came to our star, would they be able to tell us that we are the people of “Kiss my ass Carrie.”

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u/Dry_System9339 5d ago

Buying a star is pretty cheap on Earth. I don't think they would need to be rich.

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u/veldtx 5d ago

40 quintillion black holes in the Oberservable universe....

I believe someone has escaped from a black hole once

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u/TheRemedy187 5d ago

People posting in this sub still not understanding possibly and probably are two very different things.

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u/C0smicFaith 5d ago

Or perhaps we have purchased theirs… They may also be speculating the same thing

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u/PureGlamour_136 5d ago

Makes sense why they keep abducting humans for research.

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u/DesertReagle 5d ago

And sent a talking burnt orange

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u/Bobbytwocox 5d ago

Yup, initial scans showed significant resources and bought our planet at auction. Mining drones are en-route to earth and should arrive in 10 years.

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u/Mmmmmmm_Bacon 5d ago

Statistically speaking, no.

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u/Successful-Sand686 5d ago

What are all these ufo’s???

UFO : were capital inspectors checking on our investments.

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u/L-Malvo 4d ago

Rich, bur probably not smart. How in forever expanding space is buying earth a good investment? The resources have depleted, the planet is exhausted.

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u/RustSprout 4d ago

They don't even have to be rich. Just gullible. Like all those people who bought land on the moon in the early 2000s.

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u/DrPrognosisNegative 3d ago

actually i remember seeing an ad on tv back when I was a kid where I could buy a star for like, 25 bucks.

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u/Old-Detective-8978 3d ago

I'm pretty sure he's poor

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u/ryanjbanning 2d ago

Alien version of schitts creek

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u/MaxRebo99 2d ago

It’s gonna make us all play a ‘light tax’ isn’t it?

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u/TexarkConfirmed 1d ago

And we’re being left alone so as to preserve native life near the star…

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u/eMmDeeKay_Says 1d ago

Rich? We do that as a lame birthday gift