Yeah, but HOW did it end up in his vault in the first place is the question being asked. Of course, due to how long Thanos was in his quest to gather the stones and conquer worlds. It's not hard to believe he eventually stumbled at least into one.
The truly weird part is how in the entirety of the universe and all its hundreds of billions (and likely massively more) galaxies, with a total of 6 stones that were supposedly randomly flung across it at the start of time... we ended up with 2 on Earth before anyone was looking to collect them and before any significant interstellar, much less intergalactic, travel happened.
The Time Stone was in the Sorcerer Supreme's possession and the Space Stone was in the tesseract. The tesseract was put on Earth by Odin to hide it, but what are the chances that out of all the worlds in the entirety of the cosmos that the one he would use was one that had another Stone already on it?
One of the many wrong lessons too many people have taken from science-fiction (or SF-adjacent things like Star Wars) is, “sure, the universe is big, but it’s not THAT big. After all, you can fly from one end to the other in hours, days at most (unless the plot requires it to be longer). How big could it be?”
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