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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Earth's circumference is 40 Mm. 1 AU is 14 Gm. I could get used to this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The moon is 400Mm away. Never say thousand kilometers again, the mega is the way.

Imaging if we started saying millions of kilobytes instead of GB.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The Andromeda galaxy is ~23.6 Zm away. The metric system reaches far.