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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.

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Saturn's rings are around 150 mio. years old.

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[–] Aremel@lemmy.world 96 points 11 months ago

Now THAT is a shower thought.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago

more of a TIL than a shower thought

doesn’t make me any less cool

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

Interesting thought, but the rings may be older than that, and they may be reoccurring. That's just an estimate based on a range calculated in a recent study.

https://www.universetoday.com/161444/saturns-rings-are-much-younger-than-the-planet/

There's a lot more learning to do.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago

If they liked it, then they should have put a ring on it.

[–] fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 11 months ago

blows my mind every time I come across this trivia. thank you for sharing

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So the dinosaurs all died of disappointment?

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Nah, most of them moved to Saturn after they got married.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What blows my mind even more is that, when dinosaurs existed*, the solar system was on the other side of our galaxy.

(*) Dinos were around for a really long time, so it was largely during the Cretaceous when the solar system was on the opposite side.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

I also often calculate things like that in the shower

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Dios mío, man.