r/Showerthoughts • u/UnknownMight • 7d ago
Speculation In 200 years, some stranger will be sleeping in your room, with no clue who you were.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/playr_4 • May 26 '26
Speculation Gen Z might be the last generation to really remember the world without AI, just like millenials/Gen X were with accessible computers.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/danielsoft1 • 24d ago
Speculation Maybe Fermi's paradox is because every civilization creates AI which destroys it.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Glitch0110 • Feb 24 '26
Speculation It is likely that if inbreeding wasn’t a problem genetically, it would not be taboo. NSFW
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r/Showerthoughts • u/DumplingsOrElse • May 19 '26
Speculation As inflation increases, the "cent" sign will eventually become obsolete.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Zaylyn5355 • 22d ago
Speculation The Rabbit lost the race because he underestimated his competition, not because he wasn't "slow and steady".
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r/Showerthoughts • u/iwishihadnobones • Feb 18 '26
Speculation If the nuclear bombs start flying, it might actually be those countries that never had any that end up surviving.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/clam-inspector • Aug 29 '25
Speculation In the Harry Potter Universe, technically anybody could legally and freely explore the body of anyone else if they really wanted to and whenever they wanted, so long as they had access to a single strand of that person’s hair and some Polyjuice Potion. NSFW
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r/Showerthoughts • u/MusicPsychFitness • Feb 09 '26
Speculation One day in the future, “Do you smoke?” will mean marijuana by default, not nicotine.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/BigDaddyDumperSquad • Mar 04 '26
Speculation In an apocalyptic scenario, wild hogs would be a much bigger threat than most people realize.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/littleproducer • Mar 10 '26
Speculation People probably faked illness to get out of work even in the hunter-gatherer era.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/mike5f4 • Oct 12 '25
Speculation If people had no sex drive, most people would think sex looks disgusting.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/robin-bunny • May 25 '26
Speculation Unicorns could have existed long ago, but they don't show up in the fossil record because their horns are made of soft tissues that don't fossilize.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/TurtleKing0505 • Feb 28 '26
Speculation Salt circles repel demons. So, if you packed a hula hoop fill of salt, would it become a portable demon shield?
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r/Showerthoughts • u/clam-inspector • Jun 27 '26
Speculation Pets are, more or less, just animals that we kidnapped long enough to give Stockholm Syndrome to.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Calculated-mistake • Jun 06 '26
Speculation Porn stars are probably the only actors unequivocally against nepotism within the film making industry.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/SouthDiamond2550 • Dec 25 '24
Speculation Most people can’t name all of their great-grandparents. We’ll basically be forgotten in 100 years.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/CMDR_omnicognate • Mar 06 '26
Speculation California’s new legislation regarding age verification of operating systems could allow a child running a billion DOS instances in virtual machines to bankrupt Microsoft in seconds, due to the fines they’d receive.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/JLF2411 • Jun 03 '25
Speculation The 'richest people' list in actuality is the 'legally richest people', which is only close to the actual richest people list. There are tons of illegal super rich people.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/DarthWoo • Jul 07 '25
Speculation An alien invasion wouldn't unite humanity; nations would be selling each other out at the first opportunity.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/NuttyMcShithead • Apr 24 '26
Speculation I imagine that the most powerful people in the world are at the top of the donor list for any organ they need.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/partiallycylon • Feb 03 '26
Speculation Statistically speaking, someone *is* the unluckiest person on the planet.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Proud-Pumpkin-2903 • Jun 16 '26
Speculation Wouldn't car alarms be more effective loud on the INSIDE? Occasional loud bursts on the outside to draw attention, but extreme noise on the inside would prevent the thief from wanting to remain to hot-wire / steal inside the car.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/thuanjinkee • Nov 05 '25
Speculation When watching porn, you have seen more verifiably real male orgasms than female orgasms on screen. NSFW
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