Rename Earth to Shit Town so that aliens are dissuaded from visiting in the first place and potentially conquering us

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Strange-Comb6384@reddit

Aliens might just invade the earth to conquer the shit disturbers and eliminate them. We’ll have the earth to ourselves as long as we don’t cause any shit. Done!

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BadBacksFuryToad@reddit

Aliens likely already referring to Earth as Shit Town.

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DrLokiHorton@reddit

That’s asking for the most ambitious and capitalistic of them to come invade and “upgrade” us

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VeryStonedEwok@reddit

+1 for shit town. Upvote of you agree. Our voices will be heard.

There are DOZENS of us

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richardblack3@reddit

What if they wanna come here to see the band "live"?

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a-cloud-castle@reddit

"What's the name of that planet?"

"How would I know? I've never been here before."

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ryanderkis@reddit

Aliens from a Water World would be disappointed to show up here looking for earth only to find out it's over 70% water.

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Device420@reddit

I mean, there isn't a big lit up sign that says Earth 100 light years ahead out there. It's not like they would have any idea what the name was.

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Sorry-Climate-7982@reddit

Earth is just another word for dirt...
What you really need to do is look up the plot and ending of the show "To Serve Man" and put out propaganda that we are not very tasty.

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Tomj_Oad@reddit

We already have Florida Man as our interstellar ambassador.

I think Shit Town would be redundant

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Tomj_Oad@reddit

We already have Florida Man as our interstellar ambassador.

I think Shit Town would be redundant

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SpiketheFox32@reddit

If the rock band Live is to be believed, that name belongs to York, PA.

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Peachbottom30@reddit

Do you want to get attacked by alien ding beetles? Because that’s how you get attacked by alien ding beetles.

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SweetWhiskerWing@reddit

Honestly we already got worse nicknames in space... "Blue marble" sounds way too optimistic

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HommeMusical@reddit

And as a bonus, it avoids false advertising charges from the Galactic Council.

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68024@reddit

But how do we know that shit isn't the default in the universe? Maybe all the aliens love shit and we're the only weird ones

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FordMaleEscort@reddit

Great idea.

Alternate name: "stinky doo doo planet"

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brousch@reddit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUiZ8rvngw&t=44s

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I read a sci-fi story that had a human interacting with an alien culture, they provided him a "translator device" that gave the man some difficulties because it was quite literal. When he told them that he was from the planet Earth the aliens were confused.

The human said, "That's the name of our planet, Earth"

The alien replied, "You named your planet DIRT?!"

The rest of the novel was pretty forgettable, but i still remember that exchange, lol

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ZhuangZi1964@reddit

It's ok, they get the TV broadcasts. What they call us is something much much worse.

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Z4REN@reddit

We should pull the whole iceland/greenland thing and call Mercury "Utopia" so the aliens will want to go there instead

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cpt_ugh@reddit

How do we know they don't already call it that?

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jeffmc81@reddit

They already don't visit us and they probably wouldn't speak English anyway

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jeffmc81@reddit

Sorry. Shittownian

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Haunt_Fox@reddit

Shi Tpa Town

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jeffmc81@reddit

I don't make the rules. I just think them up and write them down

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derekclysdale@reddit

The only downside is that the translation of "Shit Town" into Alien results in "Paradise of Dreams" ('town' translates to 'paradise' and 'shit' into 'dreams'. But because of the noun kicking out the verb, which is exactly what Alien does, they are switched round which forces the use of the 'of'). Of course, as it happens, the aliens you speak of will never visit Earth... I mean Shit Town, so it's all good.

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DennisTheBald@reddit

We've already got the perfect emissary

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ContributionEasy6513@reddit

This is the plan the rest of the world has been praying for.

Nothing to see here. Go alien invade the USA.