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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Most of the vaults from Vault Tec have some kind of dark experiment going on, experiment that can only be performed when people are in the vaults and have a huge reason to stay in the vaults. A nuclear armageddon is such a reason. The corporation is, in my eyes and there are hints and clues in the games for that, only a facade not really interested in profits and market shares but in a bigger goal. Colonies on other planets could be such a goal, and the results from nearly all of the experiments (at least in the way planned) would be very helpful for planning and crewing generation ships and colonist groups. Having to rebuild society on a harsh and harmful planet (like the radioactive hellhole earth is in the fallout universe ) too would very much fit the criteria of an experiment to colonize other planets. If you can't rebuild on a broken earth, how could you on a harmful alien world out there?
It all makes sense, in a twisted and insane way.