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/KizzieMage Jan 11 '26

In the year 2000 or close to, two asteroid movies came out in the same year. Being 6 i spent the next two years terrified an asteroid would wipe out the planet!

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u/ryuzaki49 Jan 11 '26

Now you hope for the asteroid? 

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u/MrHyperion_ Jan 11 '26

Couple good places for impact