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I've seen the #avangers infinity wars twice now, but I still don't get #Thanos plan. Maybe someone who read the comics could help? 

I understand he wants to kill half of the population in each planet, but:
* Are the lifeforms going to be like half of each species by individual, by the kilo..?
* Or will it be half of the total life, so it wouldn't matter how much of each species is present?
* Is he considering viruses a form of life?
* Will be half of each age, for example half of kids, half of adults, half of old people..?
* Will it be randomized in terms of location? For example, half every x square meters?

So many questions...

I've seen the #avangers infinity wars twice now, but I still don't get #Thanos plan. Maybe someone who read the comics could help? 

@arteteco gonna go out on a limb and say "wait for the sequel"

even in the comics it wasn't really satisfactorily explained - like, IIRC, the entire Japanese archipelago disappeared into the ocean, but in the U.S. it was just like "oh, Mary Jane and Aunt May disappeared but Spidey is still here."

I've seen the #avangers infinity wars twice now, but I still don't get #Thanos plan. Maybe someone who read the comics could help? 

@underscorex Thanks, I'll wait for it. Just seems weird that no one actually stopped to ask him what his plan was before trying to kill him...

I've seen the #avangers infinity wars twice now, but I still don't get #Thanos plan. Maybe someone who read the comics could help? 

@arteteco He's a massive dick.

I've seen the #avangers infinity wars twice now, but I still don't get #Thanos plan. Maybe someone who read the comics could help? 

@arteteco
* by the kilo might be...gruesome?
* I think it's total life? Maybe sentient life.
* Doubt it, since he didn't kill plants, and those are arguably more alive than a virus.
* Shouldn't matter, statistically. Half of the elderly, plus half of the middle-aged, plus half of the young, should be the same as half of the whole, when choosing randomly.
* See above

I've seen the #avangers infinity wars twice now, but I still don't get #Thanos plan. Maybe someone who read the comics could help? 

@qwertz

* Well, groot is admittedly more of a plant than is a human, and he was gone anyway. How does he tell the two apart anyway, considering how many kind of beings there are in the universe?

* Age matters a lot. If a population has very few young ones, by halvening them you are getting them on the verge of extinction, with possible terrible consequences on the environment (therefore the life he tries to save)

* sentient life is a good answer, I'd be curious to know where he draws the line though. I haven't seen 3 kgs of gut bacteria coming out of those who were disintegrated in the movie, so I was inclined to think both

As a disclaimer, I started as wanting to make a graph on the population dynamics if we really killed half of all the beings, but couldn't with so little infos

I've seen the #avangers infinity wars twice now, but I still don't get #Thanos plan. Maybe someone who read the comics could help? 

@arteteco I can tell you that other than "Thanos wants to kill half of everyone" and the fact that there is a hemmed glove, the comic storyline didn't bear much resemblance to the movie.

I've seen the #avangers infinity wars twice now, but I still don't get #Thanos plan. Maybe someone who read the comics could help? 

@arteteco Heck, in the comic, Thanos was doing it to impress a girl.

I've seen the #avangers infinity wars twice now, but I still don't get #Thanos plan. Maybe someone who read the comics could help? 

@matthew_cave What, seriously?

I've seen the #avangers infinity wars twice now, but I still don't get #Thanos plan. Maybe someone who read the comics could help? 

@arteteco It's only intelligent life I think :3
(Given what turns to dust at the end)

It still doesn't make sense. Not every world is overpopulated by the same amount x'D

And if he doesn't do galactic birth control nor people change their ways, he'll just have to keep doing it, so the retirement plan is off XD

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