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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] massacre@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Nope, not possible. The solar system itself is moving as is the galaxy... it's useful to think of Earth's orbit as spiraling around the sun in the direction our star is traveling. So 1 orbit later we have not come to the same location.

[–] realitista@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)
[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Everything else.

Galactocentrism was established in 1925, which realised that our solar system is not near the center of the Milky Way. So, we are moving relative to the center of our galaxy.

In 1929, evidence was found that everything else is moving away from us. So we are moving relative to everything else.

In 1931, the Big Bang theory started superceding Galactocentrism, which was an acentrist model of the universe (where there is no center).

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago

Everything else. Or anything else, if you select a single quark (presuming we don't split a quark).

If everything is moving away from us, then everything is moving away from everything else.
It's just that some things are moving away from us faster than they are moving away from other things