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== Real Life ==

* It has been pointed out that if a real person/alien came forward and claimed to be from a planet around a star with a recognizable name like "Arcturus" or "Vega" the claim could easily be considered to be false right off the bat. It's not that they're using our name while speaking our language. (When was the last time somebody told you, in English, that they're from '[[~~Useful Notes/~~Germany|Deutschland]]' or '[[~~Useful Notes/~~Japan|Nippon]]?') It's that there are literally [[Carl Sagan|billions and billions]] of stars, and the chances of an alien just happening to be from one of the only one hundred or so recognizable stars we even ''have'' names for is a pretty astronomically small chance. Bright stars are not only outnumbered by smaller, dimmer stars by a long shot (our own sun isn't particularly bright itself, being in the middle range), and just because a star is bright to us in the sky doesn't mean it's close to us, either.

* It has been pointed out that if a real person/alien came forward and claimed to be from a planet around a star with a recognizable name like "Arcturus" or "Vega" the claim could easily be considered to be false right off the bat. It's not that they're using our name while speaking our language. (When was the last time somebody told you, in English, that they're from '[[Germany|Deutschland]]' or '[[Japan|Nippon]]?') It's that there are literally [[Carl Sagan|billions and billions]] of stars, and the chances of an alien just happening to be from one of the only one hundred or so recognizable stars we even ''have'' names for is a pretty astronomically small chance. Bright stars are not only outnumbered by smaller, dimmer stars by a long shot (our own sun isn't particularly bright itself, being in the middle range), and just because a star is bright to us in the sky doesn't mean it's close to us, either.

** Also, highly luminous stars burn out relatively quickly (a few tens or hundreds of millions of years rather than the ten-billion-year life of a star like Earth's sun), making them poor candidates for inhabited planets.

* A variation of this: the first Earth-like exoplanet to be discovered within its star Goldilocks Zone is named Gliese 581 ''g'', also known as Zarmina's World.