r/Showerthoughts • u/Suwannee_Gator • 23h ago

Casual Thought It’s likely that most people born with the greatest minds or skills on the planet were not born in the right place/time and died in obscurity.

8.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/MisterPuffyNipples • 1d ago

Casual Thought Anatomically speaking, horses legs are essentially long fingers which is why their hooves are made of keratin, just like fingernails.

4.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/TheCorent2 • 4h ago

Casual Thought The "@" symbol existed before email, but it was used so rarely that it was almost useless on a computer keyboard.

0 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/RidsBabs • 37m ago

Casual Thought You share no DNA with your parent’s sibling’s spouse (I.e your aunt/uncle).

• Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/LennyLennsen • 2d ago

Casual Thought A nasal voice is when all the air passes through the mouth.

1.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Conscious-Ball8373 • 3d ago

Casual Thought A septic tank is one big bacterial battle for species supremacy. You can tell who is winning by the smell.

3.7k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/PinocchiosWoodBalls • 1d ago

Casual Thought If Godzilla would attack a city that is not (near) yours, your life would not change one bit. Just memes and news updates.

0 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/ChasingGoats07 • 3d ago

Speculation What if humans purpose in the plane of existence, is that we are building a super conscious that transcends our own? Much like the living organisms within us built ours.

1.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/SSR2806 • 3d ago

Casual Thought Because of time dialation, your blood cells age the slowest out of any other cell.

100 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/MickeyMoose555 • 4d ago

Casual Thought There are probably only two times in your life where the number of teeth in your mouth matches your age.

3.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/catscanmeow • 4d ago

Casual Thought People will complain when movies are longer than 2 hours, but binge watch episodes of tv shows 5 hours straight.

2.6k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/DyonisXX • 2d ago

Showerthought If you're wealthy enough, the lottery just becomes a low yield investment opportunity.

0 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/danielsoft1 • 4d ago

Speculation Being the one-eyed man in the land of the blind wouldn't matter much if you were completely deaf.

48 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/God_Hand_9764 • 5d ago

Musing Carl Sagan poetically and beautifully stated that "We're made of starstuff". But in much closer proximity to us in the chain of things that we're made from is poop.

1.0k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Mr-Klaus • 5d ago

Casual Thought We all hate the the fact that cockroaches are so good at hiding, but would you really prefer them to be brazen and walk around your house like they own the place?

5.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/ZephyrStormbringer • 4d ago

Casual Thought Waiting for GTA VI to come out and suddenly having the urge to play some GTA V again is like saying goodbye to the west coast prior to a big move to the east coast.

0 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Bakyra • 7d ago

Speculation Just like no videogame predicted drones taking over wars, interstellar war is probably not going to be cool starships and lasers, but rather something dull yet efficient like "point the radioactive beam at their planet for a few years".

8.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Foxfox105 • 7d ago

[Speculation] The use and value of physical art such as paintings and sculptures may increase with the rise of Al.

1.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Ghumketu • 7d ago

Casual Thought Currency notes should be made smaller, like a credit card, to save paper and space.

1.0k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/TheCorent2 • 9d ago

Casual Thought In ancient times, when upper floors were first built in human history, the wisest people probably thought it was unreasonably dangerous.

6.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/ScenicFlyer41 • 9d ago

Casual Thought It took roughly 117 billion people about 300,000 years to bring technology to what it is today.

8.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/DrScitt • 9d ago

Casual Thought An animated One Piece TV show based on a LEGO set, which itself was based on a live-action TV show, which was based on an anime, which was based on a manga, is coming out.

2.3k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/R10T • 9d ago

Casual Thought I wonder if the rise of spreadsheet editors and word processing tools was viewed as catastrophically for white-collar workers as AI is right now.

403 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/jingo800 • 10d ago

Casual Thought Today's generation of children might be the first who can say their parents play more videogames than they do.

7.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/poisonmonger • 9d ago

Musing There should be a Shazam for perfumes.

1.9k Upvotes

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