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Originally Posted by blankall
2 explanations for this. The boomtube technology was imprecise at the time. Darkseid had been to 100,000 planets but couldn't travel to one specific planet well. Or Darkseid had purposely suppressed knowledge of Earth, as losing was some great shame.
Makes about as much as sense as an all powerful being being obsessed with life replicating too much, and then destroying half of the life....a single time.....and then destroying the mechanism for destroying life....he does know that some species can create thousands of replicants of themselves in a single year? Seems like a lot of work to delay overpopulation by 20-30 years.
Thanos' plan would have been fine, except they used the destruction of the stones as a plot device in the second film, which makes his entire motivation in the first film make no sense.
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Thanos destroying the stones is not quite as big a plot hole as you think, if you look at it this way.
He snaps away half of all living things, the people left over in all civilizations now see the planets repairing themselves, nature takes over, air is easier to breath in places like Beijing, Mumbai...the remaining people learn from our past ignorance and build a better more sustainable future.
This was his vision, you can see this by where he decides to retire to. His garden, beautiful nature and no one around to destroy it with greed and pollution.
He feels
that future is the best for everyone and that he had succeeded in scaring the #### out of all the planets sentient beings into doing the right thing for survival. Another opportunity to do what is right for the planets in his eyes. Perhaps he only wanted to give life one "second chance", that's why he destroyed the stones.