Just for that, I shall never pee again.
Edit: DAMMIT
That's every molecule in your body
So if you think about it... every time we pee, we're peeing in someone's mouth
Every shower is a golden shower.
Nestle wants to know your location
A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.
He gives water for the dead!
and you never really eat corn.
I mean, you eat the insides, just the kernal casings are indigestible to us.
(The kernels are full of poop. Poop balloons)
Water is never really yours it's ~~just your turn to drink it~~ Nestle's.
It is fun to ponder how the hydrogen from the very start is in us now, and was in comets, dinosaurs and giant trees that died long ago and gave up their elements that could be in us now. As wise people said, “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop” and "We are a way for the universe to know itself... on this pale blue dot."
"You are the cosmos made conscious" - Brian Cox
"...you're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are." - Alan Watts
"Allow yourself to fantasy that you're 13.8 billion years old And you're part of this incredible ocean of happening Instead of just this one individual Just let yourself experience that for a second The glorious knowledge that you are a never-ending, ever-changing flow of matter that's temporarily manifested with the ability to express love" - Dunkin Trussel
Almost all hydrogen in the universe was formed mere seconds after the Big Bang
True of literally everything in life. It's just our turn to hold matter in this form and experience consciousness. Our planet is a virtually closed system wherein everything is recycled.
(Yes, I know we get water from comets, and perhaps even biological material from asteroids, etc., but in the relatively short term, all of that has been incorporated and we're living in a virtually closed system.)
"From my rotting corpse plants will grow."
Our planet almost certainly loses tons of matter to space daily
606024=86400*3=259.2 mtons of hydrogen and meh im too nonsober to type that into a calculator twice so 5ish mtons of hehe? TBH I hedged my bets in the prefix to tons above, but this is an order of magnitude more than I figured. And with that ratio I'm sure hydrogen and helium are 99.999999% of that mass too.
The universe is an engine that converts hydrogen to helium, and we are the pollutants caused by the imperfections of the engine. All hail nuclear fusion, for it is light. Let it burn bright, for the ratio of fuel to exhaust is already 3:1, and one cannot bring back the purity of hydrogen once it is spent. Live for the dying of the light!
The universe is an engine that converts hydrogen to helium, and we are the pollutants caused by the imperfections of the engine.
I love this and will be stealing it! Really puts Sagan's "we are all made of stardust" in quite a different context 🤣
Water isn't yours.
It's Nestlé's.
Sam Altman would like a word.
Same with beer if you think about it.
"You don't buy beer, you only rent it."
I say that every time I take a drunken piss in a bar.
I wonder: how many water molecules I've drank were Hitler's piss once?
Not zero
Sorry for the downvote, I hate seeing this face.
it's ok. it's deserved.
neil degrasse tyson had a fun take on this. There are more molecules of water in a single cup of water, than there are cups of water in all of earth's water. So without a doubt water molecules used by any number of historical figures have almost certainly also been used by you. Genghas khan, Caesar, Einstein, etc.
I'm not clear on how long ago the person must have lived for the chances to be near certain or not.
Same with air molecules.
Our water, comrade
Water is like that, but then so is every other molecule and atom that's temporarily part of your body.
We are all made of stars.
Ok Stilgar.
Water is not eternal. It can be destroyed and created. One of the interesting ways new water happens is when you burn hydrocarbons. Some of those hydrogen atoms find and bond to the oxygen from the air and boom, that's brand new water; clean and pure, straight from the exhaust pipe.
Same goes for shit like CO2, my fave is the CO2 tanks with Bev grade CO2 that were formerly Nazi or US Army tanks from WW2
Oldest CO2 tank I've seen in rotation was from 1932.
The US ones still say US Army just painted over, the Nazi ones still have their swastikas just with a few extra bits punchd to make it not a swastika and more of a window shape.
I sometimes wonder if I ever drank water that has been my pee once
That depends: how many times have you been an astronaut on the ISS? (Don’t be embarrassed, it happens to the best of us.)
This is true for everything. The matter in your body is not yours, for example, it’s just your turn to use all that carbon and oxygen and whatnot
It's so nice to know that I'm drinking a small part of (insert favourite enemy)'s pee.
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:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.