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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Notice how there is only one species that thinks of doing things like, sending shuttles into space.
Even if there is life, how likely do you think it would be for the exact type of intelligence that humans have, to emerge?
They then have to have more luck, and not die out. And we have no species to compare ourselves to, except the now extinct hominids, who are our cousins anyway.
On top of that, they died off.
Now how likely is it for a planet to even have that?
We're talking about nearly infinite planets, but also an infinite timeline, so while life, even life very similar to ours is likely among those numbers, that it exists at the same time as us and close enough to make contact is just very unlikely unless they are technologically advanced way beyond us and have overcome those factors, in which case they surely could make contact, but seeing the apex predators of this planet behave the way we do, they'd likely feel like we're too far below their intelligence and keep their distance, especially with the fucking morons we keep making rich and famous while calling them "leaders".
lol come on now. There's finite and infinite. There's no such thing as "nearly infinite".
There is when the finite number is so large that it's almost irrelevant that it's a finite number. "An incomprehensible large number", better?
Meanwhile I believe time is actually infinite in the sense that I believe the big bang was part of a cycle of entropy and then concentration that has happened and will happen forever. It's just a belief though, and about as spiritual as I get.