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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was just an instantaneous, every living thing has a 50/50 chance of living or dying. No rounding, no species specific exceptions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

So that means that since bacteria and the like outnumber us by orders of magnitude, statistically speaking, multicellular life would be wiped out completely.