I’m not sure it’s stated, but I thought the plants that had already been purged by Thanos’ armies, like Gamora’s planet and Xandar were spared the snap.
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loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 11 hours agoIf the 50% are homogeneously spread -and it’s implied that it is-, then one may assume 50% per person also applies. Like how he didn’t leave 50% of planets alone and purge the rest.
Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
No, because the survivors of Asgard still got snapped even after getting rocked by Hella AND Thanos, right?
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Then I guess so where the microbioms of people whose guts Thanos had already purged.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I would think it’s basically a coin flip for each living thing. It’s possible, for example, that all humans survive, however the probability is so astronomically small, it’s functionally impossible.
Same with gut biome. Even with several billion attempts, the probability that even 60% of any individual’s trillion gut microbes get snapped would be essentially functionally impossible.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Just to give an idea of the unlikelihood we’re talking about here, you can model this as a Bernoulli process with a binomial distribution.
If N is the number of beings potentially snapped, then (√N)/2 is the standard deviation. (If you’re curious about why, you can read more here.) So for a 8.2 billion people, the standard deviation is ~90,000. The chance of being less than ~3 standard deviations is 0.1%. That means there’s only a 0.1% chance of snapping less than 4,099,720,200 people.