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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Think about it. Isn't light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their "influence at a distance"? We don't feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we've sensors for them and are used to it. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 10 months ago (6 children)

You can implant a small magnet in your fingertip and then have the ability to sense magnetic fields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_implant

[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It doesn't even have to be a finger. There are so many underused parts of the body

[–] Aurenkin 78 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why do I feel called out by this comment

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Any nipple can be a magnetic antenna

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have nipples, Greg. Can you make me a magnetic antenna?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Would be handy for attaching your name badge, or if you need to put those little hard drive screws somewhere so you don't lose them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

That's actually a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Does the space cold

Make your nipples go pointy, Bowie?

Do you use your pointy nipples as telescopic antennae

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Finally mens nipples get something to be useful at.

I vote for mens liberation and rights for magnetic nipples!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Magnetically sensitive taint here I come!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

With my luck I'd get stuck to a steel chair

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Never lose a game of musical chairs tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You stand up and the chair sticks to you like a gmod model

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Don't be gross tammy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Probably shouldn't put any at the base of your penis, women with piercings might not enjoy it...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

That was one incredible cyborg rabbit-hole I just went down.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Get ready to make friends with every TSA agent you see for the rest of your life, and pray you never need an MRI.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Fair point, but then, most people don't have this.

And even if you do it, you need to get some experience for your brain to develop a model of what to expect in certain situations. For instance, your brain will need some time to get used to the fact, that putting our hand on a fridge will give the brain new sensory stimuli because of the magnets on the fridge.

This intuitive understanding of light and sound is just that - brain neurons being used to what to expect. And even with an implant you would need to train that.

Though I'm definitely curious to experience once how that would feel like 😄

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Get a tight-fitting glove, sew some magnets onto the fingers, wear the glove for awhile.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At least that won’t be disastrous if you need an emergency mri, they’ll just take it off

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And you can still go through airport security.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I mean, it'd be no different than what it does for all the other sensors. Just those kick on and start training at birth whereas any augment is going to be in adulthood. But the brain is really really good at figuring that stuff out so it'd be interesting, kinda want to do it now lolol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

detecting magnetism will rarely be useful for humans especially in the context of survival

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You would have at least one part to a functioning magnet at all times lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

No thanks Elon