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It drops you down from 40 trillion to 20 trillion bacteria, it takes at most 30 minutes for bacteria to double itself. So you’d be all good pretty quickly.
 
BiffTannen said:
If it hadn't been for inventing golf, the sheep herders in Scotland might have resorted to a Brokeback Mountain style existence and Robert Fulton might not have been born and invented the steam engine. Also, legacy in-town golf courses serve as carbon sinks and wildlife refuges in America's cities.
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thank you, golf!
 
I have 40 trillion bacteriods in my butthole ! A doctor on the internet taught me that.
 
TenaciousKory said:
but 50% of 50% is 25% so that doesn't make sense
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I must be missing something about gut biomes then. How would the gut biomes in 50% of the people only be 25% of the gut biomes? That would mean the other 50% would have 75% of the gut biomes.

TenaciousKory said:
i'd be curious if at some point someone specifies that it's "intelligent life" which only causes more headaches
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Nah. It's all life.
 
A real doctor, not some Marczist grad student. Or communication doctor.
 
PhDeac said:
I must be missing something about gut biomes then. How would the gut biomes in 50% of the people only be 25% of the gut biomes? That would mean the other 50% would have 75% of the gut biomes.
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50% of 50% is 25% so 25% of the gut biomes would disappear but eventually they'd double like Gosset said so the 25% would become 50% it's pretty simple math
 
TenaciousKory said:
birds aren't intelligent?
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i don't know, are they considered intelligent life?

to answer all you philistines who won't watch MCU movies it's all life, unqualified, which is stupid because even on earth trees and grass and what not don't seem to blink out but here we are.
 
TenaciousKory said:
50% of 50% is 25% so 25% of the gut biomes would disappear but eventually they'd double like Gosset said so the 25% would become 50% it's pretty simple math
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50% of 100% of life is 50%. 50% of 100% of people is 50%. 50% of 100% of gut biomes is also 50%. So the 50% of gut biomes could be from that same 50% of people.
 
TownieDeac said:
ok well same question, i feel like birdman could answer just for birds. like, if 50% of all plants on earth died, all life on earth would die in what...ten years? five? one?
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It depends on which species. You could get rid of some whole species before an ecosystem collapses, but if you eliminate enough linkages with in the system, the whole thing crumbles quickly. However in this case, I don't think you end up with all life on earth dying, instead I think you end up with a few generalist species (like sea gulls, mocking birds, rats, etc.) capable of exploiting multiple resources that take over and completely dominate for thousands if not millions of years before biodiversity recovers. This has actually happened at least 5 times on Earth in the ~2 billion years since life emerged and diversified. E.g., the Permian extinction, about 250 million years ago, wiped out an estimated 96% of all species on the planet and it took about 50 million years to recover.

THAT SAID, I think the idea here was to eliminate 50% of each species not 50% of species, so, no single species would be fully wiped out, but instead all would experience a massive reduction in density. Unless there were severe density dependent functions governing species interactions, the Thanos extinction would probably not result is the mass extinction of species and disruptions to ecosystems that you are predicting. There would definitely be some disruptions and local or regional problems, but globally systems are probably resilient to an across the board reduction in abundance. We are actually, in a way, undertaking this experiment in North America right now over the course of a few decades (which in evolutionary scales is like a finger snap) as we have, for example, reduced migratory bird populations by about 60% overall (3 billion birds: https://www.science.org/content/art...merican-birds-have-vanished-1970-surveys-show). The reduction is not equally distributed among species. Ecosystems are still functioning despite these massive losses of avian biomass, but we are, of course, worried about whether there is a resiliency tipping point for the continent.
 
sweet, a way better answer than i deserved, thanks birdman!
 
[h=1]Film Of Prince At Age 11 Discovered In Archival Footage Of 1970 Mpls. Teachers Strike[/h]https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2022/04/04/prince-rare-footage-1970/

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We didn’t have the right equipment to hear the film. A specialist helped us extract the audio. We then heard the boy speak after getting asked about the teachers striking. With a smile as his friends surrounded him, the boy who looked to be around 10 years old said: “I think they should get a better education too cause, um, and I think they should get some more money cause they work, they be working extra hours for us and all that stuff.”
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PhDeac said:
50% of 100% of life is 50%. 50% of 100% of people is 50%. 50% of 100% of gut biomes is also 50%. So the 50% of gut biomes could be from that same 50% of people.
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I feel like it's not fair to the gut biomes who are in the people that get deleted, if they get picked as the ones who quote survive. Because without their host, they're kind of shit out of luck
 
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