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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.

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Saturn's rings are around 150 mio. years old.

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[–] Aremel 96 points 10 months ago

Now THAT is a shower thought.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)

all the dino dust was ejected into space and settled around saturn

[–] fubbernuckin 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Holyhandgrenade 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have to know if this picture already existed or if you just made that because it's perfect

[–] fubbernuckin 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not mine (unfortunately). I don't have an original bone in my body. See these bones? They're actually someone else's.

[–] Holyhandgrenade 6 points 10 months ago

Why are you using someone else's bones and why can I see your bones?!?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Clearly you can see it's an old picture, from the ages when people actually drew/photoshopped new things, before memes were 100% made up of Drake and Wojak variations.

/boomerposting

[–] ConditionOverload 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is that Charlie Kelley kind of logic.

[–] AlbinoPython 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know enough about planetary rings and dinosaurs to dispute it.

[–] ConditionOverload 4 points 10 months ago

But what about Denim T-Rex?

[–] gerbler 5 points 10 months ago

Is dinosaur law just a precursor to bird law?

[–] Zachariah 42 points 10 months ago

more of a TIL than a shower thought

doesn’t make me any less cool

[–] mipadaitu 28 points 10 months ago

Interesting thought, but the rings may be older than that, and they may be reoccurring. That's just an estimate based on a range calculated in a recent study.

https://www.universetoday.com/161444/saturns-rings-are-much-younger-than-the-planet/

There's a lot more learning to do.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

If they liked it, then they should have put a ring on it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

blows my mind every time I come across this trivia. thank you for sharing

[–] AbouBenAdhem 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So the dinosaurs all died of disappointment?

[–] alquicksilver 5 points 10 months ago

Nah, most of them moved to Saturn after they got married.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What blows my mind even more is that, when dinosaurs existed*, the solar system was on the other side of our galaxy.

(*) Dinos were around for a really long time, so it was largely during the Cretaceous when the solar system was on the opposite side.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I also often calculate things like that in the shower

[–] not_woody_shaw 2 points 10 months ago

Dios mío, man.