Timeline for Does Thanos intend to exert his plan on each planet individually or the entire universe as a whole?
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| Dec 16, 2019 at 11:56 | vote | accept | Dfan | ||
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| May 13, 2018 at 14:18 | comment | added | user50214 | Somewhat off-topic: 50% is not a number Thanos chose just randomly, it is pretty much intentional, going with his "perfectly balanced" philosophy, which is brought up multiple times throughout the movie, along with that "two-sided knife" (or whatever you call it) that he gave Gamora. 20%, 70% or any other number isn't "perfectly balanced". | |
| May 12, 2018 at 12:38 | comment | added | aroth | Here's a version that replaces green/red with blue/orange, respectively: jsfiddle.net/xnbtsewp/7 | |
| May 12, 2018 at 12:37 | history | edited | aroth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 12, 2018 at 7:37 | comment | added | Schmuddi | @aroth: Can you switch to a different color scheme for your (lovely) Thanos Murder Simulator? Red-green color blindness is actually very frequent (about 8 percent of males are affected), and for these, distinguishing the survivors from the victims is more difficult than necessary. Other color combinations work much better, e.g. blue and orange. As a quick note on creating "perfect" randomness: C'mon, these stones twist reality and time and things. There's surely also some built-in mechanism that harnesses quantum stuff to create real random numbers. :) | |
| May 11, 2018 at 23:01 | comment | added | aroth | @RBarryYoung - That depends on a number of assumptions. The first is that the infinity stones create 'perfect' randomness, which is actually very hard to do. The second is that there aren't many planets (or planetoids, or space stations, or colony ships) with low carrying capacities. The third is that Thanos, with the power to wish for either outcome equally easily, would choose to wish for the outcome that admits the greater capacity for variance. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 14:25 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | This answer is pretty but mathematically misleading. The variance of 50% probability applied to 7 billion people is tiny compared to the variance when applied to 25 people. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 20:14 | comment | added | anon | I think it's also worth noting that 50% planet-by-planet leads to 50% of the universe, but 50% of the universe doesn't lead to 50% planet-by-planet -- so you could perfectly accurately say he's going to destroy 50% of the population of the universe either way. | |
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| S May 10, 2018 at 18:26 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| S May 10, 2018 at 16:56 | history | suggested | VolleyJosh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Infinity Gauntlet, not glove.
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| May 9, 2018 at 12:39 | history | answered | aroth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |