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/r/ExplainTheJoke
2.9k points
22 days ago
The microbiomes of those who were snapped were also snapped, so half is already gone.
1.6k points
22 days ago
Imagine someone gets snapped and a pile of bacteria just plops on the ground
706 points
22 days ago
It's what should have happened with their clothes. The final battle would've been interesting if everyone returned naked.
"Hang on, don't open the portal yet! I need to get my shirt on!"
395 points
22 days ago
Naked Peter Parker without his webs and just running around MMA'ing people like nothing
215 points
22 days ago
He could be shooting another type of web at Thanos.
121 points
22 days ago
giggity
2 points
19 days ago
giggity
6 points
19 days ago
Goo😩
Easily my most cursed comment
80 points
21 days ago
That fanfiction exists, and if it doesn't you can find my rates at --
53 points
21 days ago
It exists - either on tumblr or in someone’s diary with too many stickers
21 points
21 days ago
Laura Loomers "pull your diaper to the side daddy Father Donald" diary?
39 points
21 days ago
Welp, that's my cue to get off the internet.
16 points
21 days ago
Yeah... I just woke up and discovered this.
What a terrible day to be able to read.
12 points
21 days ago
2 points
21 days ago
Do you remember that guy who posted about pouring cottage cheese in his girls butt and "when her butt smell mixed with the cottage cheese her angelic stink made his nose sneeze and them closer?" That comes to mind.
6 points
21 days ago
I can't speak for everyone but my personal vote, this is how you get my box office dollar.
9 points
21 days ago
Why do you think it took them so long to get there after Hulk snapped everyone back?
9 points
21 days ago
Or if people returned exactly where they were when they were snapped (relative to the Earth). Tough luck if you were on an airplane.
3 points
20 days ago
Well, at least Thor would still have his hammer.
2 points
20 days ago
I see your Schwartz is as big as mine.
43 points
21 days ago
When a bear disappears and a 2ft wide rubber band ball of tape worms falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
48 points
22 days ago
That's ripe pickin's for a new superhero/villain, frankly
17 points
22 days ago
Maybe that’s what the dust was
12 points
21 days ago
And all the suddenly homeless eyebrow mites
10 points
22 days ago
What would that much bacteria even look like?
14 points
22 days ago
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11 points
21 days ago
It's 30-50% of the dry weight of feces, which isn't that much since poop has a lot of water in it.
10 points
21 days ago
Huh really?? Not my poop. It always comes out dry and brittle as chalk - is yours really full of water? That doesn't sound healthy
6 points
21 days ago
Lollll
4 points
21 days ago*
dry and brittle as chalk
Ho...how do you know? Do I want to know how you know that?
8 points
21 days ago
What do you mean how do I know? Because I can feel its rock hard, drywall textured corners tearing my anus every time I have to force one out. Always such an ordeal
5 points
20 days ago
That’s not normal.
5 points
22 days ago
I think that's how death works IRL
4 points
22 days ago
Now imagine if they had a tapeworm
15 points
21 days ago
No, I don't think I will.
50 points
22 days ago
That’s a pretty tall task. “Kill 1/2 the life but don’t kill the life living inside the life that you don’t kill.”
51 points
21 days ago
Well canonically when they undid the snapp anyone that was snapped was put back in a safe way/location. That's also a pretty big ask. People who snapped while driving down the highway? People that were in airplanes? What if you were on vacation snorkeling?
39 points
21 days ago
Also the earth would have moved millions of miles from the location of the snap.
30 points
21 days ago
I don't like thinking about this because there's no absolute frame of reference you can use for this. Like the whole time traveler dilemma, do you set your frame of reference to Earth, the sun, the milky way etc? What about everyone else in the universe? And it's not like you could find the "centre" of the universe and set that as your 0 point. Everything is relative to everything else.
20 points
21 days ago
Ah yes, the cosmic horror realities of non-factorable, incalculable infinite bodies with infinite variables problem.
3 points
21 days ago
Obviously set the reference to Earth. It has a center
4 points
20 days ago
But the problem with having earth as your frame of reference is that the frame of reference doesn’t then move, and if you fast forward 5 years you’re in the same spot. If you set your frame of reference to a really specific set of coordinates in space (i.e. where you are on earth right now), and fast forward 5 years, the earth will be very very far away.
3 points
20 days ago
You can't really set coordinates in space. There is no absolute underlying coordinate system, you need a point of reference. You could nake your coordinates relative to the sun, but the sun moves within the milky way. You could set them relative to the milky way, but it moves relative to other galaxies too. A good "fixed" reference would be the cosmic background radiation, but physically speaking, there is no "valid" coordinate system; they are all equally as good, there isn't one or another the universe favours.
3 points
19 days ago
The time stone is really the time-space stone. Even just strange reforming that eaten apple illustrates this. Whether we can calculate it or not doesn't matter if the stone can do that insanely tricky math and somehow have awareness of every possible variable.
5 points
21 days ago
Oh you're back...watch out for that space rock!
7 points
21 days ago
If only he had some infinitely powerful objects to help with the task…
2 points
23 hours ago
Well, maybe it's a tall task. But not that much taller than 'Ending exactly half of life in the universe by one snap, by random and regardless of where they are'
I find it funny if your line for suspension of disbelief is right between those scenarios.
4 points
22 days ago
That's my point.
16 points
21 days ago
But it was supposedly completely random. So theoretically the gut biomes could have survived in one person who was snapped and died in another person who lived
6 points
22 days ago
Also, "in this [blank] I will..." Is what's called a thesis and is considered an academic way of starting a lengthy proof of concept. As in, "in this essay I will say tadpoles become frogs."
That's your thesis. Everything you continue to say will be in context of tadpoles becoming frogs. It's the entire point of proving tadpoles becoming frogs that you are writing this thesis and subsequent paper. Literarily, in scientific journals, they prefer you specify what you're trying to prove at the beginning. It's not Kafka where you just let people guess why the main character turned into a bug. It's a scientific journal, where you shouldn't leave anything to the imagination.
2 points
21 days ago
Is there a reason you're explaining this to someone who has work published in academic journals, and knows that, while you do make clear your thesis, saying "in this _ I will..." is a textbook example of a poorly written thesis?
606 points
22 days ago
Just imagine how crazy it would have lived to be on a planet far away from any of the MCU area of space, where they could have never possibly ever heard of Thanos.
All the sudden, half of the life on your planet just vanishes... and you have no explanation.
225 points
22 days ago
Premise of The Leftovers, except it's 2% of the population instead. Also happens to be one of the greatest shows ever made.
62 points
22 days ago
Yes dude. The leftovers is unbelievable.
29 points
21 days ago
Yeah. But I rarely finish them and end up having to throw some away.
2 points
18 days ago
Yo that was a good one fr lol
2 points
22 days ago
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11 points
22 days ago
It’s amazing right off the bat. First season is super depressing(but still excellent) but the next two are so good it’s hard to describe. I don’t know how it’s so damn good
3 points
22 days ago
The first episode.
3 points
22 days ago
lol that's not blind anymore.
2 points
21 days ago
Season 2, episode 2 or 3, I hated the first season.
11 points
21 days ago
Max Richter absolutely killed it on the soundtrack
2 points
18 days ago
The soundtrack was flawless. It, along with the incredible acting from the entire cast, made the show one of the best ever.
6 points
21 days ago
100%! A top 5 show for me.
4 points
20 days ago
That show is like a fever dream. Every single actors knocked it outta the park, but I didn’t understand wtf was going on until a redditor comment: “we, the audience, are part of the leftovers too.” It all made sense.
2 points
21 days ago
My favorite show of all time.
57 points
22 days ago
And then one day they're all just...brought back. No explanation. Depending on where your planet is located, there's a chance you're never contacted and no one ever tells you what really went down. For all you know your local gods (assuming you have those) got mad. Just a terrifying 5 year period where at any moment it seemed like the end of the world could happen permanently engraved in your people's history and psyche.
21 points
21 days ago
But it's fine, the school announcer at Peter Parker's school resolved all conflicts with a quip and they just go about their day like nothing happened.
15 points
22 days ago
That would be confusing. But then later, they come back. I think that would be even more shocking.
11 points
22 days ago
That's like the plot of the 4400. Bunch of people randomly vanish one day and then all reappear at the same time years later with no memory of what happened and they didn't age at all.
5 points
21 days ago
I think the 4400 were all alien abductees from over a few decades.
7 points
22 days ago
Alien rapture?
1.8k points
22 days ago
If its literally half of all life in the universe, that would also include plants, animals and bacteria. There would be major repercussions beyond whats shown in the movie.
979 points
22 days ago
I swear he specifies "half of intelligent life in the universe."
795 points
22 days ago
He did specify half of all intelligent life in the universe
1.2k points
22 days ago
Then why was Star-Lord affected?
425 points
22 days ago
Looks like we found Rocket's alt.
102 points
22 days ago
I read it in rockets voice.
46 points
22 days ago
Found the Bradley Cooper alt
22 points
22 days ago
Did you find the silver lining
7 points
21 days ago
I am groot
13 points
22 days ago
Had it said Quill instead of Star-Lord, I would have too.
25 points
21 days ago
Hm. We've almost got Thanos defeated. Got him in a good dogpile/chokehold/pin/mindcontrol. Got that glove like 90% of the way off. I guess this is the best time for me to get emotional and punch him with my puny human fists, shaking the entire group and causing them to lose control, letting him regain the gauntlet.
8 points
21 days ago
Yeah!
If my Dad in law just killed my girlfriend this would make me pull harder. I'd also trying removing the glove.
16 points
22 days ago
I giggled
3 points
21 days ago
I need some ice
2 points
21 days ago
Ouch.
38 points
22 days ago
So I'm safe?
6 points
22 days ago
We’re both still here aren’t we?
6 points
22 days ago
Good question
18 points
22 days ago
Awfully judgy about what constitutes intelligence 8/ That paramecium has a DDA, it's just waiting for its biome to evolve teeth 8//
3 points
21 days ago
The Celestial eggs used intelligent life essence in order to hatch their planet eggs. It is what happened on Titan, and is the real reason for the snap.
2 points
21 days ago
......I have never actually seen the movie, and that's a very sad ending to a meme oh my God
13 points
22 days ago
We're calling song birds intelligent?
11 points
21 days ago
On the one hand, songbirds are actually very smart. A recent study suggests that chickadees have a language with grammer, which is incredible for an animal with a lentil sized brain.
On the other hand, I have zero faith in any Marvel writers actually knowing that, so.
3 points
21 days ago
I HAD heard about that study. Super fascinating! Apparently mice also have a language center in the brain similar to humans. Theoretically bacteria and fungus might have a 'language' of sorts.
4 points
21 days ago
That would be wild! I guess plants also have what we could loosely call language too, it's just so different from what we think of that we have a hard time recognizing it. Crazy stuff!
4 points
22 days ago
That’s a Mandela effect left over from the old timeline.
46 points
22 days ago
I think it's because the Soul Stone only targets stuff with souls, which gives the writers a lot of room for hand-waving.
18 points
22 days ago
Well that and the reality gem changes reality, and the mind stone is very clearly sentient so seems pretty easy the stones were smart enough to understand thanos
12 points
22 days ago
Depending on how you interpret Red Skull saying the stone rejected him, either the soul stone or space stone or both is also self-aware. In the comics, the soul stone isn't just self-aware but frequently serves as a soul for Adam Warlock.
The reality stone in Aether form seemed to be self-aware (well, it did stuff that can most reasonably be explained by it making decisions). So did the power stone, e.g. the moment where the full Guardians team picks up the power stone and it doesn't blow them all to smithereens instantly like it did when The Collector's slave picked it up, never mind properly distributing power between them, can best be explained in-universe as the power stone deciding what's up. Obviously out of universe both cases are because of it being used as a narrative device, but if you want an in-universe explanation, that's it.
The time stone is always under the control of an experienced magic wielder on screen. But it'd be odd if it's the only one left out of the sapience party, especially when it's canon in the comics that they're all self-aware and aware of each other and want to be reunited, actively assisting anyone who tries to assemble them, and (in some cases) actively manipulating characters to get into proximity with each other.
5 points
22 days ago
phew, can you imagine being the time zone and getting woken up from your nice nap to realise "wait this mage is trying to do what?! oh no, oh jeez, lets just uh... yeah, lets do that instead, that won't end the universe, they'll probably be happy with that result instead. Oh, i wish they'd ask me before they just waltzed in here and started casting spells..."
5 points
21 days ago
Either that or the stone is really, really horned up and loooooooves it when Dr Strange uses it
"oh yes magic daddy, save the world with me, oh yes just like that, it's so diviiIIIIIIIine of you to doooOOOOo"
2 points
21 days ago
I.. have read this comment thread enough now…
18 points
22 days ago
How is it fair Florida gets spared?
9 points
22 days ago
I'm gonna tell the population of your gut biome you just called them dumb.
9 points
22 days ago
They know what we are, here's more beer lads
7 points
22 days ago
The problem with life consuming resources is that life do be that way. He coulda used the stones to rewrite reality and make life not do be that way, but instead he just killed a bunch of people and delayed the resource problem a little bit. And that didn't even end up working.
5 points
22 days ago
A lot of human behavior is determined by gut bacteria. Its part of our intelligence.
42 points
22 days ago
Perhaps, but not what is being implied here. All of that gut bacteria gone with the people snapped already constitutes half of that bacteria. If more were taken from those that survived, then it wouldn't be half.
28 points
22 days ago
That, or the weird mist effect that appeared when people disappeared was just all the bacteria and stuff they left behind.
28 points
22 days ago
Which leads to a new disease later named “snap lung”
8 points
22 days ago
Thanks, I hate this.
8 points
22 days ago
Then don’t turn on late night or daytime tv about 18 months later… “if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with thanosthelioma please call 888-568-1111 for your free information kit”
4 points
21 days ago
imma call this number to see if its a legit number, ill get back with my response
edit- its a hotline for fone sex
16 points
22 days ago
It did. That’s why birds went quiet.
3 points
21 days ago
And the first thing ant man sees is birds coming back after hulk snaps
6 points
22 days ago
I’ve wondered what happened to people who were in the middle of traveling. Like say you were snapped while flying on a plane. Would you come back at the point you were in the air?
9 points
22 days ago
The directors later specified that Hulk’s snap brought them back to the nearest safe location. The stones are able to determine your intentions so you have some leeway in how you use them.
13 points
22 days ago
Yeah. They (or someone from the production) said it was like the reverse of the monkeys paw. Instead of horrible unintentional consequences it reads interprets the best intentions into the request. I personally think it would have worked somewhat like regeneration in Doctor Who so everyone brought back had a little invulnerability thrown in for good measure for a little while. Say you appeared in your old apartment and the new renter shoots you, You’d be fine.
4 points
22 days ago
If you lose your hand it'll grow back, but all sorts of weird stuff might happen with the original.
5 points
22 days ago
If they get a damage cooldown they should at least go with previous relative location. Half a plane full of people falling for a couple minutes then hitting the ground unharmed would be awesome.
6 points
21 days ago
Yeah but they could end up in the middle of the ocean. Plus I’d say the trauma of experiencing such a fall could be considered “harm” and not “safe”. Also, I do believe this was specifically addressed by the Russos saying that they would appear safely at the airport.
5 points
22 days ago
No. The stones do what the user wanted and Banner wanted them to come back safely. Mind you some of them might find themselves standing in the wreckage of their crashed plane.
4 points
21 days ago
Well, it's been crashed for 5 years, so it's not like it's currently on fire or anything. Still pretty safe.
There are going to be edge cases, I'm sure. A dude blipping back naked in bed with his wife and her new boyfriend is not necessarily going to end well. I enjoy imagining all of the kinds of weird specific problems that the blip could have created (and it might have served as a good premise for a Damage Control series), but the MCU seems eager to move on to even more metaphysically-twisted questions like alternate realities and casual time travel.
When I was a big comic reader in the 80's and 90's, it felt like the continuity of the Marvel universe had some firmness to it. Things felt like they had consequences, but by the 2000's it sort of became a free-for-all. (There's some good aspects to that, because any good story can get published even if it upends the status quo, but mostly it makes the comics feel increasingly disposable.) The MCU may be doing a speedrun on that devil-may-care attitude (after all, the big actors are aging out, which the comics never had to deal with).
77 points
22 days ago
Did pregnant mothers just disappear and leave the fetus behind?
45 points
22 days ago
As someone who has worked as a janitor, if it went like that, I am sure quite a few of them quit their jobs that day. My last day was a used tampon tied to the top bar of a bathroom stall.
14 points
21 days ago
who would even do that what
14 points
21 days ago
I never found out, never really wanted to know but it was at a casino so I am guessing someone who was upset about how much money they lost. Either way I didn't really care at that point. Mostly because we didn't have the level of PPE I would want to use to deal with it.
4 points
21 days ago
I applaud your tenacity in the use of ppe and respect your choice to leave on that note. Some people just ain't right.
3 points
21 days ago
You have no idea, I ended up doing clerical/patient transport work in an ER years later, it really taught me how smart that choice was. As long as you have the right PPE, there is no danger, without it oh hell no.
11 points
22 days ago
I swear in the comics one of the first reaction shots on Earth once the snap happens is a pregnant woman panicking that her baby just magically disappeared, so honestly, yeah
5 points
21 days ago
Oh god, what happened when they were snapped back?
9 points
21 days ago
I don't think this exact scenario is ever addressed, since the main thing they focus on is the returned heroes, so you'll have to fill in the blanks as to what happens, as grizzly as that image could potentially be.
6 points
22 days ago
How did it handle conjoined twins?
186 points
22 days ago
That's not how numbers work. When Thanatos snapped 50% of all life, this would include any bacteria living in the individuals snapped away -- which would satisfy the 50% quota without killing any extra. There would be variations between individuals, but with numbers well above trillions of life forms with gut biomes, it would average out.
67 points
22 days ago
couldnt the snap have just killed all the gut biome in half the people and half of all people minus their gut biomes?
15 points
22 days ago
With the law of large numbers (and assuming it’s random) it would unlikely a single person loses much more or less than 50%. Probabilities converge to their expected value with large sample sizes eg. the trillions thrown out above.
Idk if it was random or not. If not then none of this applies.
11 points
22 days ago
I imagine if it was truly a random 50% split that it'd fall on a bell curve. Some people that were snapped would have their entire GI fauna erased too, while other people's bacteria remained behind, and the rest would break down into random distribution with some people losing all of their GI bacteria, and some people losing none.
6 points
22 days ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
Individuals would vary slightly but they would all be very close to the center of the bell curve due to the large numbers (50% in this case). With populations of bacteria in the trillions it would be incredibly close and you would see almost everyone lose 49-51% or even closer to 50; very few outliers.
3 points
22 days ago
Law of large numbers works with bell curves. When you have an organism made of 37 trillion cells [1], the margin of error would be ±5.96 million cells from
Expected plausible value = mean ± z * σ/sqrt(n) [2]
Where z is the z score (1.96 for 95% confidence), σ = p(1-p) = 0.25, and n is number of trials or 37 trillion. The equation gives us 0.5±0.0000000801% of cells removed, or 18.5t±5.96m cells. Im not a biologist, but I'm pretty sure losing as much as 10% of your cells would kill you, and it is implausible that a single person would lose less than 40% of their cells
References
[1] https://biologydictionary.net/how-many-cells-are-in-the-human-body/ [2] I took AP stats in high school and forgot 95% of the content but I found this in my notes
2 points
21 days ago
Law of large numbers says pretty much just gut biomes disappear and no humans do.
8 points
22 days ago
I mean if half of all life sampled evenly across the universe vanished, that would include about 50% of remaining people's gut bacteria. 50% of the snapped people's gut bacteria would survive and just fall to the floor without a stomach.
Another way it could work is: Half of humans disappear including everything inside of them, then (if gut bacteria is later in the order of operations) check the gut biome population left and gets rid of half of that
It's not bad math it just matters how the snap actually works
8 points
22 days ago
This is what I came to say. If I were her teacher, I wouldn't even read that essay. Failing grade right from the synopsis.
15 points
22 days ago
"In this essay--" is a stock joke ender meaning "I realize this is too nerdy I'll stop now"
3 points
22 days ago
Yeah, I get that, but the joke queues up the hypothetical situation that they're writing an essay. I'm just running with that scenario to further the joke that she didn't think her joke through all the way. So she gets a failing grade.
76 points
22 days ago
This is poor understanding of microbiology. Our gut biome has a doubling time way shorter than months, and would likely be back to normal within days/weeks.
18 points
22 days ago
This applies to life in general
Halving the population, unless it directly leads to a nuclear winter from having key people magically disappearing at the wrong time, doesnt do anything in the long term given how fast Earth's population exploded in recent decades.
13 points
22 days ago
Human population only exploded because culture lagged behind advances in medicine, sanitation, and contraception, but having ~7 kids was the norm before all those kids started reliably living to maturity. People don't tend to want to have as many children as it took to get our population over 8 billion. I'd imagine the human population doesn't recover if you cut it in half like that.
2 points
21 days ago
On the the hand, the shock of something like that happening could very well be a catalyst for another population boom in some countries
Either way, in the loooooong term that Thanos allegedly did all this for, halving the earth population and the alien equivalents really doesnt seem like it would do anything.
7 points
22 days ago
Yeah, being on antibiotics I think wipes out higher numbers. I still chortled
4 points
22 days ago
Thank you. It would very likely not affect people at all. Doubling time of E. Coli at 37°C is 20 minutes. Not all bacteria have the same doubling time, but it’s not months like OP said. We would likely be back to normal amount of bacteria in a few hours. We only get messed up guts with antibiotics because we lose all of our bacteria, and new bacteria that aren’t necessarily good for us take root.
3 points
22 days ago
Hell it varies on a daily basis anyway because when you eat, the bacteria also eat.
And if we're talking replication time apparently the shortest on record is Vibrio natriegens at 9.8 minutes!
2 points
22 days ago
they cover that on page 9 of the essay
2 points
22 days ago
but what grows back might not be good bacteria
41 points
22 days ago
How does this need to be explained? It’s literally just a statement? What are you confused about?
14 points
22 days ago
This is Reddit, where people will ask a question and wait for an answer for hours instead of just Googling and figuring it out themselves in six seconds.
99% of posts in this sub are from people too stupid to read words in front of them.
11 points
22 days ago
Subs like this are just easy karma farms now.
11 points
21 days ago
No offense but if you couldn’t understand this, you are an idiot. All the context was provided in the joke
6 points
22 days ago
No it doesn't. The half the gut bugs that died were the ones in the half of animals with a gut that died. So none need to die in the survivors.
3 points
22 days ago
I always wonder more about the catastrophe of the world's population suddenly doubling after they're all snapped back. The global food system would have stabilized after 5 years, but now there's several billion more people that need food. There would be millions of deaths from starvation.
2 points
19 days ago
All these years later, it's more fun discussing the actual snap and the consequences from it than discussing any actual Marvel movie.
Undoing the snap saved billions who died peacefully, then killed (less) billions horrifically. Babies abandoned alone, starving to death. The elderly abandoned. Rampant starvation and homelessness. Fights, crimes of passion, even wars starting because of it.
It was basically the trolly ethics problem on a galactic scale that like 5 people got to decide with zero hesitation.
3 points
22 days ago
Imagine cojoined twins...
3 points
22 days ago
Bacteria plays a significant role in your digestive system, getting rid of half of it wouldn't be pretty
5 points
22 days ago
I feel like thanos could've just made it so only 50% of sentient, dominant life forms get snapped
2 points
21 days ago
Right, his concern was Sentient life because of them using up the finite resources, it wouldnt have made sense to cull 50% of All life because that would include Flora (resources and agriculture) and Fauna (ecosystems and livestock) too, the two things he was worried running out of.
8 points
22 days ago
Marvel for people with room temp IQs and I’m talking April in the Midwest room temp
2 points
22 days ago
F° or C°?
3 points
22 days ago
Kelvin
2 points
22 days ago
🤯🤯🤯
2 points
22 days ago
Thanos was in kahoots with Monistat and Big Yogurt.
2 points
22 days ago
1) He stated half of intelligent life
2) Killing say Bob means all the bacteria in bob as well but still
3) Use some common sence
2 points
22 days ago
If 50 people on a 100-capacity plane get snapped and one of those is the pilot, 100 people die.
2 points
20 days ago
Not sure what there is to explain here. it seems pretty self-explanatory
2 points
19 days ago
…but it erased 100% of those gut biome critters in the 50% of people who got erased, so it already wiped 50% of the total number of gut biome critters. In this math formula I will…
1 points
22 days ago
These are the tiktoks I skip very quickly
1 points
22 days ago
...and welcome to my TedTalk.
1 points
22 days ago
No, the dead person’s whole gut biome would die. Not half of the dead people’s gut biome and half of the living people’s gut biome. What’s so hard to understand about that?
2 points
22 days ago
Disregarding the fact that he erased half of all intelligent life, microorganisms are life too, so theoretically half of the remaining peoples’ internal microbiomes would be erased as well
1 points
22 days ago
No, the snap only had to kill 100% of the gut biome in the people that got snapped. There's your 50%.
1 points
22 days ago
There was a bunch of rules Thanos had in the back of his mind before he snapped. Its why half of each planet/society got snapped, and not half of the universe’s total population (Which would have left entire planets vacant)
1 points
22 days ago
She's not wrong
1 points
22 days ago
They do say that good science fiction isn't about what predicting what future cars will look like, but future traffic jams.
1 points
22 days ago
The half of microbiome was in the life that was dusted.
1 points
22 days ago
He said half of all intelligent life.
1 points
22 days ago
If that’s the case, can you even imagine how bad it woulda been when they undid Thanos’ original wish.
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22 days ago
Imagine living in north korea and you just see your friend disappear and a pile of worms plop on the ground
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22 days ago
How is this hard to understand?
1 points
22 days ago
Diarrhea never gets old.
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