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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 128 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Bacteria multiply crazy fast.... as long as the food source was uninterrupted I'd almost guarantee you most people's microbiome would be fully recovered in just a few hours and they'd not even notice.

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 96 points 10 months ago

Yeah 50% loss isn't servere at all for gut biome loss. If you've ever been on antibiotics you've likely experienced that or worse.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And the big thing that fucks people up is not only the high loss but also the antibiotics slowing or stopping additional reproduction. That keeps the population depressed for an extended period and then you get the shits.

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Basically they'd feel mildly bad for a few days?

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 12 points 10 months ago

Bingo, or you would, I'm a bit more sensitive so I get slightly worse symptoms. But nothing dramatic.

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[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 10 months ago

Our doubling time isn't that bad either. We reached 4 billion in 1970s. If we round up the current population to 8 billion that's about 50 years. That's all that thanos would add by the snap. Even less probably because we have better medicine now so it would be easier to reach that number.

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[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 119 points 10 months ago

Snapping half the life forms also snaps half of the world's gut bacteria. If we removed half of the gut bacteria from those who weren't snapped, that would be removing 75% of the universe's gut bacteria, not 50%.

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

Not if 50% of the gut bacteria of the people who got snapped just like fell to the ground, or got stuck to that dusty shit.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 64 points 10 months ago

Why assume that though? The Infinity Gauntlet isn't a Monkey's Paw, it reads beyond the words and answers the intent of the wielder. So much so, in fact, that it even includes subconscious thoughts and feelings as part of its interpretation. I see often these ideas predicated on the Gauntlet working on Monkey Paw logic despite that being clearly and specifically not how it operates within canon.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 27 points 10 months ago

Yeah, we gotta remember the gauntlet includes the mind stone and the soul stone. Things smarter than just simply granting wishes, as you said.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, the Gauntlet wouldn't leave anything that can't survive on its own, like gut bacteria, nor remove anything that's needed for the proper functioning of another lifeform. It's why there weren't any fetuses falling to the ground after the pregnant women vanished.

I would assume that conjoined twins would be a both-or-neither situation, since removing one would leave a gaping wound in the other even if they could have survived independently with surgery,

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Thanos does not believe that life begins at conception confirmed.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It kinda sidesteps the whole thing, since the standard is life that is dependent on other life to survive is not counted separately. Like the conjoined twins thing I mentioned.

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[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I mean, does it erase 50% of all life, or just roughly 50%?

[-] constnt@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

50% of what Thanos considers life since it was powered by his will. Since he seemed to imply that nature (plants and animals) where not part of this it's safe to assume it was sapient life only.

[-] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 17 points 10 months ago

Except animals definitely were - remember endgame, Barton went into the office looked out the window to a small garden and found birds had appeared. Very indicative that the snap included animals

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Makes you wonder what happened to fetuses. I think it's fair to assume Thanos isn't pro-life

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[-] lauha@lemmy.one 11 points 10 months ago

That's what the dust was.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Wait. If that is how it happened that means when half the population came back they all came back with 0% of their gut bacteria. Holy shit that would be horrible. The population doubles overnight and every single person and animal has the worse runs of their life. Meanwhile they can't get the nutritional needs no matter how much food they eat. Spend the next few months while their family cries as they wither away surrounded by food.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

No, the desired effects was to undo Thanos's snap, not double the human population. This means that all of the gut bacteria got unsnapped exactly the same as everyone else

[-] dwalin@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Imagine the famine if the next day the world population doubled. Considering that the agricultural production was also reduced

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago

This is one of the many reasons why I say Tony Stark is a bigger villain to the universe than Thanos.

A sudden LACK of mouths is much more favorable than suddenly DOUBLING them.

I order to keep his family alive, he just brings them all back, many years out of place in a universe completely and totally unprepared for their arrival. Not to mention all the people who died AFTER the snap, as a direct result of the snap, will still be dead.

Tony stark is supposed to be smart. So he should know the consequences of his action, and completely disregards it.

And the series pretends he did the universe a favor.

Fuck Tony stark.

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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 50 points 10 months ago

No. The bacteria eliminated was all in the people who were dusted for convenience.

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

But it's not random. Not fair. Not balanced. Entire civilizations of gut bacteria wiped out! To them it was like he wiped out entire planets instead of life forms!

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago

That's assuming that half of the gut biomes of all humans was just left floating around. No, it's more likely that the biomes were snapped out of existence with their hosts.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

Whomever wrote the code for the synchronous kill must have been sweating bullets. So many ways that could go wrong.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

well when you get snapped all that's left is dust. perhaps that dust is all the microbes in your body that survive the snap. It clearly takes up far less space that if it just disintegrated you.

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 32 points 10 months ago

If we're playing by those rules, then only 50% of every human would die, because we're made of smaller living organisms

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's simply not true by the current definition of organism.

With all the Marvel alien species it was probably true for some of them though.

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[-] doingless@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

So no different than most days

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 15 points 10 months ago

I worry about you, Lemmings. Eat some fiber or something.

[-] example@reddthat.com 13 points 10 months ago

I ate fiber but now my internet is down. what do I do?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 10 months ago

So what you're saying is, the "Up the Thanos" strategy could have worked if Antman simply flew up there while Thanos was emptying his bowels due to the changes to his gut biome. The only difficulty would be swimming up the stream of liquid shit ejecting out at high speeds.

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Doesn't that multiply really fast? We'd be back in like a day, maybe two.

[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah rapid growth. Maybe a day or two of gut trouble but back to normal pretty quick as long as your diet hasn't changed too much.

And that's possible cuz half of all livestock just vanished, so now you're paying 85 bucks for a steak.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Half the livestock and half the demand. I don't see much problem.

[-] ethanolparty@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

Yeah but you know they'd use that as an excuse to jack up the prices anyway

[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

if only free markets worked that way. Countries that make lots of would panic and try to horde what is left. You also have half the worker to raise the animals, crops, and everything else we need. Half the number of driver does not mean we need half the roads

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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 9 points 10 months ago

Oh and I thought Avengers was a documentary.

[-] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think the real problem would be ecosystem collapse.

Ecosystems evolve as complex, interdependent systems with nonlinearities. What happens when you kill off 50% of pollinators in a single instant? 50% of plankton? 50% of grasses? The problem with nonlinear systems is that killing off half of A and half of B won’t have a linear effect if the relationship depends on having minimum levels of A. Assume it’s a random function such that we kill off half of all plants and on top of that half of all rhizobium bacteria which fix nitrogen for many plant species. Now we’re killing off potentially all plants that depend on having a stable population of rhizobium bacteria, which will have a cascading effect throughout the already devastated ecosystem. It’s all about tipping points and sigmoid curves and such.

The truth is that it was a completely stupid idea, and it was what finally broke my love of the marvel franchise. Either you have runaway ecosystem collapses, or the populations will simply return back to their original levels to hit their ecological carrying capacities again. Kill off half of termites, and you’ll probably be back to the same level of termites in a decade or less. Even with people (using the word inclusively across all technological species), you’d have a population surge that within less than a century or so would be brought back to carrying capacities. Populations self-regulate via interaction with their ecosystems. You’re either going to end up with 100% extinctions or system recovery to current levels within a very brief period via normal reproduction and evolutionary dynamics.

It was a massive effort undertaken by an immortal and massively intelligent person that is inherently flawed because the marvel writers apparently never took Biology 101-102. I’m not saying it was GoT season 8 levels of bad, but after watching those last couple of movies I not only never rewatched them, but I checked out of the mcu pretty much entirely after having rewatched the previous movies multiple times each.

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The movies did a great job at presenting thanos as an extremist that sincerely wants the greater good by questionable means, but it falls apart because his grand plan is just so stupid. The only way to reconcile the sympathetic character with the dumb plan is to point out he's "THANOS THE MAD TITAN", not "THANOS THE TITAN THAT FULLY CONSIDERS THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS ACTIONS"

Would have been much better if they just kept his original motivation from the comics: Death is a hot lady and horny thanos does the snap as a gift to her

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[-] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 months ago

I power blasted diarrhea a lot in my day.

Now I power blast giant turds and I fart way more...I owe it to a high fiber diet.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Before metamucil:

After metamucil:

[-] thechadwick@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Non credible defense is skewing older and more colon-health conscious than I would have initially expected..

TIL.

[-] esserstein@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I'll be honest, I could use a good powerblasting every once in a while.

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Could have been a monkey paw situation. "Half of all life disappeared, you say?" every living thing suddenly missing their left half "Done!"

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