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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 most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The volume of Planet Earth is 108.321x10^10 km3.. Converted to std meters, that is 1.08321x10^21 m3.

A typical high flow 3d printer hotend (without getting insane) can hit around 25mm3/sec volumetric flow assuming no nozzle or acceleration restrictions. Converted to std meters, that is 2.5x10^-8 m3/sec.

If you ran that hotend continuously with no breaks, it would only take about 4.332x10^28 seconds to print the planet Earth... or 1.374x10^21 (1.4 sextillion!) years!

Gentlemen. We're going to need a bigger printer.

[–] falk1856@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just set it to 5% infill in fast spaghetti mode and we can crank that baby out before the sun goes dark.

[–] WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I mean if you only print the side that is exposed to sun. Keep rotating that baby.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That's why you start by printing more printers.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of us here aren't actually mortal so that's not a big deal

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah but it's a little hard to power your printer past the heat death of the universe

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Every fucking century you just haaave to bring that up, don't you.

[–] algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Might need to bump up to 0.8mm

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 8 points 1 year ago

Or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof:-)

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 8 points 1 year ago

Archimedes was better known for bath thoughts.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol imagine thinking you would print anything without youtube!

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well unless you like miniatures in which case you're going to need resin

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Actually I printed a few decent ones with my Ender 3. A couple tests on my new A1 came out really nice.