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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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The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sort of similar to the Great Filter theory, but applied to time travel technology.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Or it's because we don't have time machines yet. It's like making a phone call when you have the only phone in existence.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Imagine creating the first functional time machine only to have a shitton of time travelling tourists appear in it the second you turn it on

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

Exactly. We can still only send a single gel banana back in time until we invent proper time machines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

My favorite depiction of time travel tech is Primer. Assuming you figure out the time travel part itself, I can imagine a time machine that can take you all the way back to the moment it was switched on. Any other mechanism has introduces way more issues that time travel alone.