Thought Provokers: 10/1/2025

It's shocking that we don’t have air-to-air missiles positioned to shoot the enemy fighter jet chasing behind us.

If animals are capable of dreaming, are they able to tell the difference between “reality” and the dream world? Are they both equally real to them? Or maybe the dream world is their “reality,” and we have it wrong.

Every weight-training exercise, regardless of the direction of movement, is ultimately against the force of gravity.

There is a most-listened-to last song that plays right before people pass away.

As Artificial Intelligence becomes more prevalent, prompting will become a standard class in grade school.

We use bookmarks to pause conversations with authors who might have died centuries ago.

At least one generation of US network television viewers grew up with the Meet the Press theme unexpectedly playing as a portent of something bad/scary.

We sometimes need to create a raster image of encoded text by taking a screenshot of it in order to highlight and copy the text on our modern mobile devices. This is the exact opposite of how things used to be.

If there were no coincidences to ever happen, that would be the greatest coincidence of all.

If Rudolf Diesel had a harder last name, diesel fuel could have gotten its very own name.

Dating apps should display distance in approximate driving mileage, rather than geodesic or ‘as the crow flies’ distance. That would more accurately reflect the distance between two people.

Software that can detect swearing in videos would be helpful in locating the part of a dashcam recording that you’re looking for.

Celebrities with celebrity families must have no problem not knowing someone’s age when it’s one of their birthdays.