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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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This is something I sometimes wonder myself. Like, we always assume aliens would be more advanced than us... But what if the opposite was true? Aliens exist, but humanity is actually the most technologically advanced species in the universe?
There's a short story that kind of touches on this, and I'm pretty sure it's pretty readily findable online. "The Road not Taken" by Harry Turtledove
Spoilers, I guess
The basic premise is that the secret to FTL travel is ridiculously simple,and most civilizations stumble onto it fairly early, and it just happened that humanity never did. Every other civilization once they discover it tends to pour all of their resources into developing that technology, but because of that they don't really advance in other aspects, so aliens arrive on earth expecting to face a primitive civilization because they didn't detect any signs of FTL travel, but it turns out that we far surpass them in every other aspect. They attempt to invade earth with basically flintlock muskets, and are met with tanks and fighter jets and such.