That’s another part I don’t remember seeing. Why didn’t half the trees ash away in the forest? What about things where there’s no good line between where ‘one’ ends and ‘another’ begins like fungal mycelium? Since all humans are composed of living cells, shouldn’t half of the cells die?
I always thought it was a dumb plot point, but obviously it’s whatever “half” definition however Thanos thought of it. So probably just half of sentient creatures, or something. The point is, the answer is whatever Thanos wanted.
In my head canon, there’s some species out there that didn’t ever get Thanos snapped. Why? Because he commanded the stones to randomly dust half the people in the universe. And it turns out that Thanos is just really racist against that one species and subconsciously didn’t consider them to be people.
Counter argument- “half of all life removed at random” isn’t “half of all life planet to planet”. Maybe all our flora survived and another lost the balance. You could theoretically have a planet that lost absolutely nothing but several others were wiped out entirely to balance that.
If you presume no, then imagine the same number of viruses, now infecting half the number of hosts. This seems like it would skew the balance closer towards viral survival at the expense of all living beings. Oh well.
That’s another part I don’t remember seeing. Why didn’t half the trees ash away in the forest? What about things where there’s no good line between where ‘one’ ends and ‘another’ begins like fungal mycelium? Since all humans are composed of living cells, shouldn’t half of the cells die?
I always thought it was a dumb plot point, but obviously it’s whatever “half” definition however Thanos thought of it. So probably just half of sentient creatures, or something. The point is, the answer is whatever Thanos wanted.
In my head canon, there’s some species out there that didn’t ever get Thanos snapped. Why? Because he commanded the stones to randomly dust half the people in the universe. And it turns out that Thanos is just really racist against that one species and subconsciously didn’t consider them to be people.
Counter argument- “half of all life removed at random” isn’t “half of all life planet to planet”. Maybe all our flora survived and another lost the balance. You could theoretically have a planet that lost absolutely nothing but several others were wiped out entirely to balance that.
Technically possible, but the probability that everything on earth except humans won the coinflip would be infinitesimal.
Well it for sure killed my entire “Suspension of disbelief”.
And what about viruses? Are they living things or not?
If you presume no, then imagine the same number of viruses, now infecting half the number of hosts. This seems like it would skew the balance closer towards viral survival at the expense of all living beings. Oh well.