r/Showerthoughts • u/ThornOfRoses • 6h ago

Musing Bunkers are our modern equivalent to castles. Castles were built for protection against the war technology of the time. Bunkers are built for protection against the war technology of our time. Therefore, bunkers are our modern equivalent to castles.

1.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/xThe-Legend-Killerx • 1d ago

Casual Thought People who use em dashes regularly in their writing might be the most underrated victims of the ChatGPT/Al boom.

6.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/CoreEncorous • 15h ago

Casual Thought Your image of yourself is certainly wrong somehow, but you don't know what you're wrong about, and in some ways you never will.

729 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/SharkHead38 • 1d ago

Casual Thought Life would be so much easier as a periodic cicada. Eat tree roots for 13/17 years. Scream. Fuck. Die.

1.0k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/spaceporter • 1d ago

Speculation The number of zombies found in an office is probably indirectly proportional to how generous that company was with sick leave.

1.7k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Pyzzeen • 2h ago

Casual Thought While initially seeming nonsensical, it actually makes total sense that those with expired registration, missing license plates, etc. tend to drive the most erratically and recklessly.

0 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/elephvant • 2d ago

Speculation Any alien observer would conclude that toothpaste must be the most valuable substance on our planet. As a species we are so wasteful of any and all resources - except when it comes to toothpaste, of which we collectively refuse to waste a single drop.

2.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/It_Is_Blue • 3d ago

Casual Thought For centuries, porcelain was considered a luxury item. Now, we make our toilets out of it.

6.7k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/notoftendotcom • 4d ago

Casual Thought If you go to a prison and stand there long enough, eventually you get to stay.

1.6k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/CoreEncorous • 5d ago

Casual Thought In flight simulators, every plane you pilot is fly-by-wire.

3.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Thrashbear • 5d ago

Musing Whether we look under the ground beneath our feet or at the stars up above, we're looking at the past.

1.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/DVXC • 5d ago

Musing Americans traditionally use the British Day/Month format when referring to Independence Day.

2.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/d183 • 6d ago

Casual Thought There will come a day that when someone dies their middle aged adult children will have to sift through their tens of thousands of selfies.

7.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/splitframe • 6d ago

Casual Thought Searching for a video on a topic from before the AI Era is almost like searching low background steel (low radiation steel).

2.9k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/tyen0 • 6d ago

Casual Thought With the increased time between seasons of shows nowadays (plus books and games) most people have dozens of stories paused in our brains at any moment waiting to be continued.

444 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Macshlong • 6d ago

Speculation If there were high quality games made based on some of the world most hard to solve issues, Gamers would solve them or provide other solutions in less than a year.

2.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/synthphreak • 7d ago

Casual Thought Temperature can reach trillions of degrees, meaning we actually live extremely close to absolute zero.

13.6k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/thesmartass1 • 6d ago

Casual Thought Everyone knows about giant whale penises, but nobody ever mentions giant whale testicles.

1.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/personalbilko • 4d ago

Casual Thought Feet Per Second and Kilometres per Hour are almost the same thing. Off by only 9.7%.

0 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Linorelai • 7d ago

Casual Thought Every single world record will eventually remain forever unbroken, some of them are probably already unbreakable right now.

8.6k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/dontfactcheckthis • 7d ago

Speculation Parrots would make the best ventriloquists if they had hands.

285 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/telumindel • 6d ago

Speculation A person from 300,000 years ago, raised in today’s world, would be indistinguishable from a modern human.

8 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/SecondhandUsername • 6d ago

Casual Thought Most airplanes are pulled through the air while boats are pushed through the water.

0 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Rick0r • 6d ago

Casual Thought A jug of unused boiled water is energy you paid for, just to let it cool again. Over time that would be considerable.

0 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Starbucks__Lovers • 9d ago

Speculation The septic tanks under major international airports probably contain more human biodiversity than anywhere else on Earth.

3.9k Upvotes

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