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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Of all the forms that matter can take in this universe, it predominantly forms into big orbs of light in an otherwise endless sea of darkness (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It's only light to us because we see it. Lots of other things put out radiation we can't look at directly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's maybe counterintuitive, but around 8/9 of normal matter is in interstellar and intergalactic space.

Source: I remembered it and searched for it just now.

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