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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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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

I am a big fan of sci-fi and understand how expensive weightlessness is to film, so combine that with the amount of shows that have been canceled and I completely accept the fact that they try to keep this more fictional than science.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well... Star Trek The Undiscovered Country.

[–] girthero@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yep! One of the more rememberable parts... Floating pink Klingon blood droplets everywhere!

What you’re really saying is there aren’t enough big budget sci fi things to watch.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Simple. All the floors are made from a special exotic material, that is a lot like a magnet, but attracts everything. And just like magnets, they are not powered by any external source and don't need any external systems to control.

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It would make sweeping really hard.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Why? It's adjusted (thickness of the material) to exactly match earth's gravity, so everything is exactly the same.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I always thought of mini black holes in the floors.

[–] ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Titan AE

"Just think of it as floaty time!"

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I like the movie and atmosphere but damn the villains are whack

I wish there were some spinoff or something similar.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

starships have redundancies most likely, much like the life support systems. its like artificial gravity isnt coming from an actual generator, but the whole ship itself in some unknown mechanism, most scifi genre dont explain how its being created, it looks more like an energy field throughout the whole ship generated from every "system" in the internally.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sounds expensive... what if we just chalked it up to magic?

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Not magic. The artificial gravity stabilizers are directly enhanced by the production budget stabilizers, which keep them in check.

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