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[–] Anticorp 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's not how it worked. He killed 50% of gut bacteria by killing 50% of the hosts.

[–] LovableSidekick 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends on whether "50% of all life" means half of the contiguous lumps of cells we call "creatures" or simply half of all living matter.

[–] BatmanAoD 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You literally see individual people dissolving, and others being unaffected. How is this unclear?

[–] LovableSidekick 2 points 1 month ago

Haven't seen it, I'm just reading about it here, I'm not even sure who Thanos is LOL.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Source? I'm pretty sure random bacteria would still be around a while if your brain activity went to zero.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

But that’s not what happened. They literally disappeared, along with the gut biome

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Your biome is specialized to live inside of you. They are not identical to wild organisms.

[–] Anticorp 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The source is Thanos supposed IQ score.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

This is refuted by his approach to only cut out half the tumor.

[–] T156 3 points 1 month ago

½?

[–] LovableSidekick 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah my interpretation is that half your cells would die - didn't even consider that if half your brain cells died it would probably kill you instantly.