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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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 7 months ago by DeepThought42 to c/showerthoughts

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[–] Dasus 9 points 7 months ago (19 children)

Why?

Unlike in history, we don't really lose information anymore. Not trivia about a massively popular fiction like that anyway.

For instance, Homer, the writer of the Iliad and Odyssey, is still well known. He lived almost 3000 years ago. He was known by the ancient Norse as well, so it's not like it's one of those things that was lost to history and discovered in the modern age.

But... I guess you might be trying to make a point that maybe by that point there are real light sabers and perhaps even have been for centuries. It'd make it sort of like the origins of the modern taser, which are also in sort of in scifi. Sort of. Loosely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taser#History

Jack Cover, a NASA researcher, began developing the first Taser in 1969. By 1974, Cover had completed the device, which he named TASER, using a loose acronym of the title of the book Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle, a book written by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Victor Appleton and featuring Cover's childhood hero, Tom Swift

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The amount of junk polluting the internet is growing exponentially. I won't be surprised if future historians have trouble separating the truth from fiction, shit posts and LLM craps.

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