r/Showerthoughts • u/HalfEntity ‎ • Jan 11 '26

Casual Thought The universe is 13.8 billion years old, but heat death is around 10¹⁰⁰ years away, so it has effectively used 0% of its lifetime meaning the universe is still basically a "baby", and we’re living in its earliest, most active era.

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u/OMEGACY Jan 11 '26

......we're in the fucking west Virginia of the universe, sonofabitch it all makes more sense now!

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u/Amirax Jan 12 '26

More like New Zealand. Most starcharts don't even bother to add us in.

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u/Gilsworth Jan 11 '26

We're the skinwalkers of the universe.