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: 1
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I mean, they kinda do. All the flat earth models I've seen have a tiny sun going around in a circle above the disc.
I've never come across anyone who believed in heliocentrism, ever. Is that a thing?
Some public schools and so-called 'experts' try to tell us the earth and other planets orbit around the sun. But anyone can see with the naked eye that the planets don't change brightness, even though their distance from the earth would vary vastly under this crazy heliocentric model! Fake science!
well, to be fair, we can see the same amount of stuff in every direction without an edge. and at the rate of expansion, we could never reach the 'edge' we can currently see. so we kinda are at the centre of the universe
I think the problematic part of ~~heliocentrism~~ geocentrism is more "the sun is rotating around the earth" rather than "we are at the center of universe"
heliocentrism is not about the sun rotating around the earth. The heliocentric model puts the sun at the center, and everything rotating around it.
Oh yes, Im dumb sorry I meant geocentrism but just used the word written above x)
Yeah, the whole Flat Earth stuff is a relative modern re-occurrence.
We've had concrete evidence of a globe Earth and a pretty accurate measurement of the circumference since the 3rd century BC (Erastothenes). ¹
Heliocentrism was theorized by the Ancient Greeks, but we've only had concrete evidence/math since the 16th century (Copernicus). ²
Then in the 19th century, you had the writer Washington Irving who wrote a romanticized biography of Columbus and claimed that folks in the Middle Ages believed the Earth to be flat, which was just not true. ³
And then there was Samuel Rowbotham, another writer who just made up a whole load of bullshit and kind of brought the conspiracy theories underway. ⁴
¹: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
²: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism
³: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth#Irving's_biography_of_Columbus
⁴: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Rowbotham