I never left, had some issues with RUclips. Part 2 is coming soon. If you liked this one and want me to jump right into the 1982 original/sequel, let me know. Oh, and 30 Days of Night is also coming soon.
I like how Nerd Explains literally talks bad about his knowledge in science and still manages to blow people's minds with his extensive knowledge in anatomy and physiology.
I mean the knowledge base is very impressive but if you want to make a video on a particular subject(like this video) and you want it to be good, then doing a lot of reading off of Wikipedia to learn the subject is a bare minimum. People who make videos like this aren't just bottomless pits of knowledge they simply take the time to learn things in more depth; things that were barely taught in public schools(at least in America cant talk about elsewhere) because they are still centered around trying to prepare the masses for labor/menial jobs like working in factory's, or serving coffee, BECAUSE THE RICH DONT WANT A SMART POPULATION EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD HELP THEM TOO BECAUSE THEY WANT TO KEEP THEIR FUCKING POWER EVEN TO THE DEATH OF THE WORLD AND OUR SPEICES.
Bioengineering undergraduate student here: wow this was great! A lot of what he’s talking about is definitely stuff that comes up in our classes, especially as areas for potential research. It’s not my first time hearing any of that info. (except the Chinese room and Alcubierre drive) though I’ve not heard it applied to the Thing ;). While I absolutely don’t have the experience or expertise to say that the biology had no holes or could work as described, nothing stood out to me as completely implausible (admittedly, he was pretty broad strokes about the exact mechanisms). Awesome seeing stuff I’ve learned about applied in such a cool way! This definitely took a lot of research, especially if he’s not coming from a biology background. Any researchers or professionals around with insight into the plausibility of the science of this?
@Luuk Ciere Just a student here. This is probably a stretch, but The Thing could have a system to work backwards from proteins to synthesize DNA. Once it took a sample of human DNA and "understood" which codons related to which amino acids it could analyze an amino acid sequence in a blood cell protein, create a sequence of codons that match, and finally construct a piece of DNA that matches those codons.
I think you have a great explanation of The Thing but I object to one idea: I don't think a single cell or small number of cells could assimilate a person. If assimilation was that easy The Thing would NEVER attack people openly and violently. There would simply be no reason to do this as it could just cough on people or lick its palms and shake hands, ect... Instead we see that when it assimilates somebody it violently attacks them and punctures their body, flooding them with its own cells. So I suspect that Thing cells are vulnerable when trying to assimilate an foreign cell and can and will be destroyed by the native immune system. Hence, the creature needs to flood the organism with a multitude of its own cells to overwhelm its pray and break it down.
Title: "How to beat the humans in The Thing" Nerd explains: "so today I'm going to teach you more about cells in 20 minutes then your science teachers will in 20 months."
The only thing about cells that we all still remember is that mitochondria is the power house of the cell and even that is only an overly simplified explanation
I theorized that the thing is so perfect about replicating people that the disguises it creates don’t remember they are a thing. Only when they are detected does the internal thing take control. Thus the painful expression are the false human reacting with pain and horror as they realize they are a monster having its body used as a weapon to kill their friends.
Just one 'thing' I would like to point out, the Thing doesn't want to assimilate/commune with the entire population of bipedal anxiety monkeys. It wants to leave the planet ASAP. Both movies show that the Thing priority is to commandeer a spacecraft and getting the hell out of dodge. Since it has the knowledge of a far more advanced civilization, after the first human assimilation, it probably thinks it is pointless to stay here, which is probably why it crashes the helicopter, it doesn't want to go so far from an already built spacecraft in possible working condition. I would also guess that it just wants to assimilate more scientists just to have more mass to have more hands, or energy reserves, to man the spacecraft efficiently. But 'things' go south when the bipedal anxiety monkeys shows up with a flamethrower, which is why it goes as a 'movie monster', trying to assimilate in secret, to avoid losing even more energy/mass in such desolate place.
@@alexandergreene461 What? Fuck no... The space ship is almost ready... We are BILLIONS, can you even imagine how long it would take to take over humanity? And we can and will nuke and use fire. No reason to risk giving away your existence, if you can just go away.
What i would do as the thing is: - assimilate the most trustworthy people - get rid of the flamethrowers - frame people - would not change th eplace of your earring
Reminds me of the short story called "The Things", based on the perspective of the alien and why it wants to assimilate the people. Really cool story! 🤘🏼
The brain is a kludge, a horrible, crazy method of storing information and self. It's a cancer, an inefficiency so colossal it would get any productive lifeform killed. Moreover, it locks this fake sentience in a cage of mindless flesh that can't even move on its own. *It has to go.*
@@suella7505 at first his voice felt grating, but now i agree tbh i sometimes can fall asleep to these videos, even though i keep looking over my back lol
For someone who said he’s not a scientist you explained how the Thing could exist and assimilate other living organisms exceptionally well and it sounds very plausible. Nicely done 👏
Also, fun fact. There were two characters in the 1982 sequel named Mac and Windows, and it was a crazy coincidence because the movie came out before Mac and windows brands.
Hm. You know, I really do have to wonder how.. intelligent, the “thing” as an organism is, since *depending* on the situation, i wonder if there’s a chance that there could be some sort of symbiosis with it. Like, is it still some of the same.. human in there, with the thing? Is it ALL the thing in there with none of the humanity left? Because if there’s still a human in there, even partly, it honestly sounds like maybe there could be some sort of peace worked out between this alien race and ourselves. A win/win scenario for both the continuation of the thing’s intelligence and life, and a win for humans becoming genetically more powerful and Intelligent, given that you’re literally putting two heads into one. That’s probably just wishful thoughts but idk I’m just speculating.
There would be people who will agree to that idea. Then they will be people who thinks that’s bat shit insane. So I wouldn’t be a surprised if there a war between those who agree to join the thing and become one with it. Then those who will prefer to remain human. I wonder how a war like that would turn out ?
I think that'd be like the main character Shinichi in Parasyte. When the parasyte failed to took over Shinichi brain and had to settle at his arm, they co-existed. The parasyte in there is arguably less aggressive and less powerful than the one in the thing, but I think they mainly just work and survive differently.
Ship of theseus. Why give an organism any say? It is comforting to think of peace, but in nature, the simplest solution is domination if possible. The thing finds success in taking resources by force? It survives, just like any predator. Humans may or may not pose a significant new challenge. Besides that, the feeling of violation and having a world you have always known fall apart, as you do, into literal pieces, would be a traumatic experience for anyone. People are used to their head not being split open.
@@Pi-is-Bi Parasyte was my first thought too! Also Venom since that's another symbiote. The issue comes though when there are "evil" ones that wouldn't be okay with sharing control. And creatures (not just humans) always fear what they don't understand
@@BestBES I think no highly intelligent creature likes to share the same body with another. Some of these characters managed to because they were forced into it and there was no way out
I’m a medical student and was able to follow all of the biology portions of this video. It even had one or two things I was unaware of. I’m honestly curious on how much YOU learn about various topics. Wikipedia dives and research about random information can be very rewarding, and so with every video you create and research, you learn a little bit more, sometimes a lot more. I am honestly happy seeing someone learn so much. It gives me hope for humanity
This is literally 7th grade information. Great content maker for sure but not even close to "knowledge god". Or at least it's not directly proven in the videos.
A kindergartener asked on what would they do if they were Stalin and got news the Germans were about to reach Moscow through Stalingrad could be smarter than them
Sorry guys , I don’t buy it . Nearly everyone would be , simply for the fact that we need the plot to advance . Of course they wouldn’t make the characters smart , aside from the protagonist .
@@summonersriftgarbage4426 When I first played the game, I thought they got their ideas from this movie. The Alien kill animation resembled this movie's monster so much lol.
AKA: How to beat “Carrion.” On another note, whenever I tried to classify exactly WHAT the Thing is, I always just fell under the presumption that it is some kind of incomprehensibly evolved life form that has reached such a complete level of biological control over its physical body that it doesn’t even require a fully functioning nervous system in order to retain its intelligence. Much like what the video itself purposes, I believe that its DNA IS the “neurological system” which carries the Thing’s “intelligence.” Its DNA is so intrinsic towards carrying the overall “intelligence” of this entity that the DNA does FAR MORE than just carry instructions for cellular fabrication. The thing’s DNA “intelligence” controls any cells it creates, controls any system that THOSE cells create, controls any organs THOSE systems create, and finally controls whatever organism those ORGANS create. At every level, no matter the cellular complexity OR simplicity, the Thing’s will controls the entire physical form. That would explain why even if its bodily fluids gets exposed to dangers like fire, not only do these replicated fluids react, but the entire replicated ORGANISM it came from reacts as well. The Thing’s CELLS react to outward physical stimuli without the affected cells even possessing neural functions. Its DNA IS its brain. And that implies a kind of biological evolution so impossibly advanced that it actually makes sense how it can create interstellar spacecrafts from junk in the shed.
@@recklessragdoll2552 Not too long honestly. I love thinking up sci fi scenarios like these cause I’m a fiction writer myself. I ended up editing it more than anything; to make sure I got my point across.
I always assumed that the thing only copies the outside and voicebox of people and just jammed tentacles and teeth and other stuff into the shell. No organs, just a bag with death in it
It's funny how you mention the whole "fish growing legs and storming the beaches" thing at the end of the video. There was actually a popular horror manga about just that called Gyo, created by renowned horror mangaka Junji Ito. It was about these mechanical spider legs that appeared from nowhere in the ocean, attached themselves to fish, and then made them walk onto the land and attack people.
One: I do not assimilate more than one human to read his memory and run as a dog to find a polar bear then a fish and I colonize the sea, by the time I start to take care of humans, they'll be no way to stop the thing apocalypse...
The Thing is by far my favorite Movie Monster so to see you go so in depth with the concept of it is so great for me. I love it, especially your command and conquer analogy which really clears up why such a detructively powerful being routinely retreats when faced with open combat. It knows that disappearing and reinfiltrating is much more effective for dominating an entire planet than open conflict would be, which would leave it with diminished resources once the dust settles as it would have been forced to destroy much of the things it could utilize to propagate itself on a new planet. There's a reason why when it screams in the John Carpenter version we've dubbed it "the scream of a thousand dead worlds." It's goal is total domination of all life in the universe, not destruction of it. I think my main problem with this movie (aside from the unreasonable accessibility of flamethrowers) is that this monster seems impatient and reckless. In the original it seems much more willing to just wait, not necessarily eliminate everyone, and keep itself hidden. The new version is quick to attack for absolutely no reason at times, like in the helicopter (where it was literally on it's way out to new populations) or when it detatches an arm after they kill the guy with the flamethrower. Old school Thing would have bided its time, dropped pieces of itself, slowly taken the entire base. It's in no rush, the only reason it's stopped is because time and again the main characters are able to determine who it is and directly confront it at which point it goes all lovecraft to escape.
You mean paranoid, they are already there because they know some place got knocked the fuck out, their heads up really came when some crazy guy was risking his llife to kill a sled dog and attacking the crew in order to do so, and they also got a lot of creepy-ass documentation from the first crew that got killed, including a photograph of what is clearly a lifeform that did not originate from Earth encased in ice, and maybe even some footage of what is definately a spacecraft that was not of human origin. Basically, they knew something bad might have been out there, and once humans are aware of a threat, they are more vigilant to spot it. It's why racists are some of the best informed, most intelligent people, and most mentally stable people out there. This is true btw: - people who are more likely to agree with the validity of racial sterotypes score higher in IQ tests - people who live in racially diverse areas are also more likely to beleive in racial sterotypes having validity - people who self-identify as being on the far right have the least mental issues, while people on the far left have the most of them, particularly when looking for cluster b personality disorders, mood disorders, and psychotic disorders, racists are more likely to be on the autistic spectrum, however. - people who know more about topics relating to race, science, and history tend to be the most racist and the most likely to exhibit xenophobic and nationalist political attitudes, same goes for those who demonstrate less apathy to these subjects. - racists have a more active amygdala, which correlates to pattern-finding and conscientiousness - paradoxically, they tend to demonstrate more empathetic and altruistic behaviours towards those of other races than non-racists or anti-racists, who tend to be more like jerks, this behavioural difference also applies to interactions with those of the same race, they are nicer and more socially involved, they are also notably less affected by group influence (such as bystander effect, authority effect, or peer pressure) - racists not only score higher on friendliness, they also score higher on de-escalation and peaceful conflict resolution strategies than non-racists and anti-racists, explaining why "far right" terroism is the second most rare motivation for officially-defined terror attacks than behind "miscellaneous/unknown", while "far left" terrorism is the second most common after "islamic extremism", also why racist terror attacks typically are committed by lone actors, compared to the attacks attributed to lefti-wing and islamic causes, which more often involve groups working together. Basically, they may hate other races, but they will never admit it and do not demonstrate it in their interactions with members of other races, while anti-racists are more ikely to practice the behaviour expected from a racist when interacting wth those of other races, even though this is just how they interact with people generally. - racists are more likely to be autodidacts than non-racists and anti-racists, who are more likely to attend post-secondary education. - racists are more likely to come from intact and loving families, compared to non-racists and anti-racists, who are more likely to come from single-parent or dysfunctional families. - racists are more likely to be financially secure and are also more likely to be rated as physically attractive to the opposite sex, non-racists and anti-racists are the opposite, more likely to be rated as less physically appealing (as rated by the opposite sex) and are less financially solvent (more frequently in debt). - racists are more "light" than the general population when it comes to "dark triad" traits, while anti-racists are more "dark" (meaning they fill more of the dark triad than most people). - the further one is to the right, the more equal they interact with those of other racists, wile those further to the left tend to change their bahvaiour more in response to knowing the race of their interaction partner, racists are more likely to have close relationships and frequent interactions with those of other races, anti-racists are more likely to isolate themselves around those of the same race. - racists and anti-racists are more likely to be atheist or non-religious, non-racists are more likely to be religious than either group. - racists tend to demonstrate better knowledge of scientific methodology and critical thinking skills, and to apply it more often in problem solving, situation analysis, and in everyday living, they are allso less affected by social pressures, anti-racists tend towards a more dogmatic and assumption based thought and think emotionally rather than rationally, they are also more affected by social environment, this ties into the fact that racists tend to be on the stronger scale of the autistic spectrum, which is associated with this hyper-logic that frequently leads to social problems, while anti-racists tend towards personality disorders and mood disorders that are more characterized by irrational and emotional thinking. - "but autism also is characterized by difficulty with understanding other peoople's perspectives", yes, in children and unadjusted adults, and also dysfunctional autistics this is true, but high-functioning autists are not psychopaths that lack concern for how others think and feel, and tend to learn how to interact with other people over time, often to a superior degree than most people. The fact is that Norway is much more left wing and anti-racist than The United States, especially during the 80's when this movie and the prequel takes place, may have a lot to do with their superior odds of survival.
The first thing was made in 1951. Are you saying that the second one from 1982 was bad because it didn't have CGI, or it was better than the original because of the effects? Because neither had CGI.
@@ryanhogge8He’s saying the second one is better due to its lack of CGI than the 3rd one. I’m assuming he didn’t know about the black and white version of the thing. But I assume you knew that and you were just being picky and anal.
“I’m really hoping none of you understand as i say bull shit” me: I only took Biology all 4 years of high school, don’t ask me chemistry I don’t know shit about chemistry
@@thegk-verse4216 Imagine seeing the humans melting into each other and turning into a fucked up version of the exorcist while playing Among Us. I'd be horrified to touch my PC for a good bit.
Okay, I love this. Being the little devil on a movie villain's shoulder is actually really fun. Would definitely like to see more of these, Nerd Explains!
I would’ve flown my spaceship into Jupiter since the gravity is so immense that it can play with its moons like for example Io and at the core of Jupiter it’s hotter than the outside layer of the sun (sun: 5778k, Jupiter: 20273k)
@@mrporbig yeah especially a planet so harsh not even the most resilient of bacteria. In fact I don't even think bacteria live on Jupiter, which means if bacteria can't survive, NOTHING can survive
This is one of my favorite videos from nerd explains. You can tell, despite not knowing the topics, they still put in the time and effort to do some research to get a rough guess on how some of these things work... which is pretty awesome... and nerdy :D
this wasn't that bad for me but 'Mortuary' really fucked with me so bad that i stopped talking for an entire week, honestly it's probably why i don't do well when im close to others
Why don't you fucking research an entire video, edit it, voice it, and upload it, stop complaining, he is not a circus monkey you can make dance around.
I would put some of my blood or saliva in the water source to start. Maybe put some saliva on cans and bottles too. Be active why everyone else is asleep and just infect everyone at night while acting fully human during the day. Not alert them to my abilities keeping that secret as long as possible.
They missed the whole point of the original when they made this movie. They just hung on the body horror, did it with cgi, & made The Thing show itself constantly with random teeth & tentacles
Lmao the best part is that in the film it shows "the thing" cells taking the DNA of red blood cells in order to take control and look like them. There's just one fatal flaw... red blood cells do not contain a nucleus or DNA xD
So, if I was infected by The Thing, would I still be here? Would I still identify as myself, only a Thing version of myself? Or would I start to fade as soon as it reaches my brain, deleting my personality and selfawareness completely? Also, if infected by the Thing, could I just make myself into a unicorn and run off into the sunset?
here is a great idea, the thing could reveal itself, and lie about being an ambassador from space, that way, not only would the humans not attack or seek to destroy the thing, but they could actively protect the thing
The “from a single cell” theory doesn’t hold water and has been pretty throughly debunked. The human body has specialized cells who’s only job is to use chemical signals to identify and destroy other human cells that aren’t as they should be. These cells are constantly at work, preventing us from getting cancer. Most microbiologists agree that without these cells, we’d all die of cancer before age 30. And it just so happens that the exact kind of chemical markers these cells use to identify cancer cells, are the same as the chemical markers a thing cell would have. Carpenter himself confirmed that the Thing can’t infect a healthy immune system with just a single cell, it has to get enough of its cells into a potential host to meet its MID threshold. The only reason that one of the characters mentions “one small piece” of the thing being able to infect people, is because he was unaware of how the Thing’s biology worked, and was being extra cautious as a result. Which was understandable, given the circumstances. MID = Minimum Infectious Dose.
So the thing should simply try to go in japan. There its tentacles would be in good use for the japanese culture and it could shoot his contagious viscous liquids without limits. It would not even need to blend in, it could traumatize himself though.
The thing was a lot more than one cell by the time they were there, and most definitely broke the MID thing you were talking about. Also, who’s to say that it overtook a human 1st?
Well, I personally think it's possible. I mean, if it can replicate our cells perfectly, then our immune system won't be able to detected it, unless he copied a cell like cancer cell, which is supposed to be destroyed.
Well, one thing I find interesting is in the first movie, someone dies of a heart attack. They try to revive him only to learn it was a thing. It didnt know how a healthy cardiac cell is made like, so when it infected him, it imitated his heart condition. This indicates that yes thing cells can imitate foriegn cells perfectly imo..
@@blackwingBF The immune system doesn’t use visual cues to identify cells, it uses chemical signals. Cytotoxic T Cells are cells who’s only job is to find and destroy cancer cells. They find cancer cells by using chemical markers to find cells who’s DNA is incorrect. It is impossible for Thing cells to completely avoid detection from cytotoxic T cells, because part of the Thing’s base genetic structure HAS to remain in order for a Thing cell to stay a Thing cell. This is because the instructions for how a Thing cell should behave, and what physical capabilities it has, are all located in its DNA. If a Thing cell completely altered its DNA so that it only had the DNA of a human cell, then it would actually be just a normal human cell at that point.
33:27 this is literally the story of Gyo, a relatively short story manga written by Junji Ito, if you ever wanna spread your content and make it about a horror manga, that's a good start, i can imagine a "can you survive the killing fish bio-machines in Gyo?" video lmao
So what was the original alien intend Crash land to take the parasite out with him or the parasite decides to land, freeze himself with the alien and send a distress signal inorder to get saved
While imitating the subject, it probably couldn’t immediately make something like a spare brain, but once it completes assimilation it could probably remove non-needed organs like an appendix in exchange for a mini brain.
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When the characters in a movie are so dumb that you’d rather imagine how the villain could’ve won
When the villan breaks plot armour
Lmao
Lol
They actually aren't this stupid
Very true...
I never left, had some issues with RUclips. Part 2 is coming soon. If you liked this one and want me to jump right into the 1982 original/sequel, let me know. Oh, and 30 Days of Night is also coming soon.
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I’d like a the ring video or the grudge
“I’m not any type of scientist or anything”
*proceeds to recap my high school science classes*
Well, no one is a scientist in high school so...XD
Underrated comment😭
bruh I have to take you high school classes in 8th Grade, F my life
analytical biochemist here 👊😌
High school isn't the lab
I like how Nerd Explains literally talks bad about his knowledge in science and still manages to blow people's minds with his extensive knowledge in anatomy and physiology.
notice me
I mean the knowledge base is very impressive but if you want to make a video on a particular subject(like this video) and you want it to be good, then doing a lot of reading off of Wikipedia to learn the subject is a bare minimum. People who make videos like this aren't just bottomless pits of knowledge they simply take the time to learn things in more depth; things that were barely taught in public schools(at least in America cant talk about elsewhere) because they are still centered around trying to prepare the masses for labor/menial jobs like working in factory's, or serving coffee, BECAUSE THE RICH DONT WANT A SMART POPULATION EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD HELP THEM TOO BECAUSE THEY WANT TO KEEP THEIR FUCKING POWER EVEN TO THE DEATH OF THE WORLD AND OUR SPEICES.
@@hmdragon1638 not the species that wouldint benefit them, the species besides them is more correct
so you're interested in horror movie, my interest's are pokemon's.
Finally a comment where they all don’t say IvE sEaN yOu BeFoRe wait does that technically mean that me well fu...
How to beat The Thing: STEP 1:
dont dig up random shit in the arctic
Indeed.
True, but people are stupid
Good thing i don't care about sh*ts
If it is frozen in the ground, leave it
Im okay with leaving it in the ice but imagine you can reconfigurate the imitating bloodcells talent that would be an advantage for the human race!!
Bioengineering undergraduate student here: wow this was great! A lot of what he’s talking about is definitely stuff that comes up in our classes, especially as areas for potential research. It’s not my first time hearing any of that info. (except the Chinese room and Alcubierre drive) though I’ve not heard it applied to the Thing ;). While I absolutely don’t have the experience or expertise to say that the biology had no holes or could work as described, nothing stood out to me as completely implausible (admittedly, he was pretty broad strokes about the exact mechanisms). Awesome seeing stuff I’ve learned about applied in such a cool way! This definitely took a lot of research, especially if he’s not coming from a biology background. Any researchers or professionals around with insight into the plausibility of the science of this?
@Luuk Ciere Just a student here. This is probably a stretch, but The Thing could have a system to work backwards from proteins to synthesize DNA. Once it took a sample of human DNA and "understood" which codons related to which amino acids it could analyze an amino acid sequence in a blood cell protein, create a sequence of codons that match, and finally construct a piece of DNA that matches those codons.
I lost u at bioengineering
@@Bluey-hk3ll same lmfao
@@nevernonormies7812 *confused in ooga booga*
What’s bio engineering like fam? I’m considering it as a potential career choice?
If 'The thing' landed in a city the entire human race would be fucked.
At least us stay at home nerd will die last after the night club goers
Eh if ppl saw a thing taking over people and it got out if control nukes would be sent.
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Wouldn't that mean it would come for us first because we're isolated?
@@TheSwiftAssassin7113 No. no they would not be.
"Imagine three trillion fish sprouting legs and storming the beaches worldwide"
Laughs in Junji Ito
As soon as he said that Gyo instantly came to mind
This is then new plot for the next sharknado movie
Same bro, exactly my thought
Ya mean the walking fish game? Lol
Sameeee i was like gyo who
I think you have a great explanation of The Thing but I object to one idea: I don't think a single cell or small number of cells could assimilate a person. If assimilation was that easy The Thing would NEVER attack people openly and violently. There would simply be no reason to do this as it could just cough on people or lick its palms and shake hands, ect... Instead we see that when it assimilates somebody it violently attacks them and punctures their body, flooding them with its own cells. So I suspect that Thing cells are vulnerable when trying to assimilate an foreign cell and can and will be destroyed by the native immune system. Hence, the creature needs to flood the organism with a multitude of its own cells to overwhelm its pray and break it down.
"I am no biologist"
Proceeds to make me feel stupid.
I am nothing.
And I am the 100th like
Cow boy Daniel I’m the 185 like
524th?
585th but no one cares :P
617 ._.
Title: "How to beat the humans in The Thing"
Nerd explains: "so today I'm going to teach you more about cells in 20 minutes then your science teachers will in 20 months."
@Kyle Pollydore Why did you say that?
@@AD-ol3wv Because among us is based off cells and a monster like the think pretending to be a human and you have to beat the humans
The only thing about cells that we all still remember is that mitochondria is the power house of the cell and even that is only an overly simplified explanation
Literally perfect for me lol.
Beauty of yt
I theorized that the thing is so perfect about replicating people that the disguises it creates don’t remember they are a thing. Only when they are detected does the internal thing take control. Thus the painful expression are the false human reacting with pain and horror as they realize they are a monster having its body used as a weapon to kill their friends.
A fun video idea would be how to beat Kevin from Home Alone because he was seriously dangerous for an 8 year old
Really tho how
@@romantybor4219 a gun
@@thelocdesiringentryintoyou3686 no he will still beat you
@@romantybor4219 how
@@romantybor4219 a gun is kind of a one solution fits all type thing on earth
Just one 'thing' I would like to point out, the Thing doesn't want to assimilate/commune with the entire population of bipedal anxiety monkeys. It wants to leave the planet ASAP. Both movies show that the Thing priority is to commandeer a spacecraft and getting the hell out of dodge. Since it has the knowledge of a far more advanced civilization, after the first human assimilation, it probably thinks it is pointless to stay here, which is probably why it crashes the helicopter, it doesn't want to go so far from an already built spacecraft in possible working condition. I would also guess that it just wants to assimilate more scientists just to have more mass to have more hands, or energy reserves, to man the spacecraft efficiently. But 'things' go south when the bipedal anxiety monkeys shows up with a flamethrower, which is why it goes as a 'movie monster', trying to assimilate in secret, to avoid losing even more energy/mass in such desolate place.
VERY under rated comment! 😮✨
@@alexandergreene461 What? Fuck no... The space ship is almost ready... We are BILLIONS, can you even imagine how long it would take to take over humanity? And we can and will nuke and use fire. No reason to risk giving away your existence, if you can just go away.
Bipedal anxiety monkeys is an incredibly apt and uncomfortable term for humans, brava good sir.
Nah that spacecraft construct the thing was building was for it to reach civilization not get off of earth. I think it's explained in the comics.
@@Good_Watch your correct.
I was fu**ing stoked when I found your channel.....no I’m bummed out that I’ve watched it all in 3 days, we need way more videos!
His voice is so monotone I didn’t even notice him start talking about his ad. 😂
What Raid shadow legends does to a mf
Ikr
He sounds like Technoblade but with emotions
I'm impressed with the seamless transition 😆
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Oh so your the one who prescribed those pills to my grandpa
@@pizzaman6885 Would you like the same type of treatment Mr. Pizza
Amen. 🙏
Are you okay?
Same
"we didn't want to explain it"
Nerd explains: "and I took that personally"
What i would do as the thing is:
- assimilate the most trustworthy people
- get rid of the flamethrowers
- frame people
- would not change th eplace of your earring
Among us(kinda) in a nutshell
@@sommerrachelle8369 because any social deduction media is like among us now
Why the hell get the flamerthrowers away
@@FAULOU13 i dont wanna get boom boomed
@@sommerrachelle8369 among us is loosely based off of The Thing
Movie director : *intentionally leaves the mechanics behind the thing a mystery*
Nerd Explains: *breaks down the DNA structure of the thing*
It's just a theory
@@jetastronomia8400 a film theory
Look up Roanoke Gaming, he's an actual biologist who does videos explaining movie and game creatures. He took the thing to a whole new level
@@pokerface6886 andddd CUT
Reminds me of the short story called "The Things", based on the perspective of the alien and why it wants to assimilate the people. Really cool story! 🤘🏼
The brain is a kludge, a horrible, crazy method of storing information and self.
It's a cancer, an inefficiency so colossal it would get any productive lifeform killed.
Moreover, it locks this fake sentience in a cage of mindless flesh that can't even move on its own.
*It has to go.*
Please do a how to beat the alien Calvin from the movie “Life”. That would be really cool
Petition starts now
Yesssss
Never seen it but I can never complain for more content
I've heard a pretty funny fan theory that said that Calvin might actually be Venom from spider-man universe
Yesss , i love that movie ,although the crew was fucking careless and made a series of incredibly stupid decisions :")
"Weaponizing your giblets" is now my new favorite phrase.
"Millions of cells die every second without you noticing"
Well I do now
yes but do you feel it? 🤓
you can't really skip the part where he does the sponsorship, because he blends it into the video so well
He's one of the people I don't mind listening an ad to, his voice is relaxing
@ROBERT DUPUY I see you like hollow knight as well
As do I
@@suella7505 at first his voice felt grating, but now i agree tbh
i sometimes can fall asleep to these videos, even though i keep looking over my back lol
I just did
“3 Trillion fish sprouting legs” oh no not a Junji Ito story
Exactly what I was thinking lol
cute prp
@@ethanspaziani5269 agreed, I was gonna comment on it but then I seen your comment lol
@@floofitoaster2168 being a furry has that side effect
@@ethanspaziani5269 yes it does
Edit: u a furry?
For someone who said he’s not a scientist you explained how the Thing could exist and assimilate other living organisms exceptionally well and it sounds very plausible. Nicely done 👏
Ah yes I very much relate to being a people eating/imitating monster from outer space
Glad we’re on the same page.
Same same 😁
You’re just describing my poor cousin. They were Molotov Cocktail’d to death by some moronic bartenders
@@sincere3712 😐
@@manguy-fm9xj I know it’s a tragic event
The thing could have easily beaten the humans cause almost all people in that movie are extremely stupid
Yeah, unlike in the 1982 sequel, where characters like Mac are absolute badasses.
Also, fun fact. There were two characters in the 1982 sequel named Mac and Windows, and it was a crazy coincidence because the movie came out before Mac and windows brands.
@@KnightandDay33 Man you made my day xD
@@KnightandDay33 lol true.
Shit, they were realistic. Nobody would see crap like that coming.
Oh but yeah in this movie they were too proud and dug their own grave
Hm. You know, I really do have to wonder how.. intelligent, the “thing” as an organism is, since *depending* on the situation, i wonder if there’s a chance that there could be some sort of symbiosis with it.
Like, is it still some of the same.. human in there, with the thing? Is it ALL the thing in there with none of the humanity left? Because if there’s still a human in there, even partly, it honestly sounds like maybe there could be some sort of peace worked out between this alien race and ourselves. A win/win scenario for both the continuation of the thing’s intelligence and life, and a win for humans becoming genetically more powerful and Intelligent, given that you’re literally putting two heads into one.
That’s probably just wishful thoughts but idk I’m just speculating.
There would be people who will agree to that idea. Then they will be people who thinks that’s bat shit insane. So I wouldn’t be a surprised if there a war between those who agree to join the thing and become one with it. Then those who will prefer to remain human. I wonder how a war like that would turn out ?
I think that'd be like the main character Shinichi in Parasyte. When the parasyte failed to took over Shinichi brain and had to settle at his arm, they co-existed. The parasyte in there is arguably less aggressive and less powerful than the one in the thing, but I think they mainly just work and survive differently.
Ship of theseus. Why give an organism any say? It is comforting to think of peace, but in nature, the simplest solution is domination if possible. The thing finds success in taking resources by force? It survives, just like any predator. Humans may or may not pose a significant new challenge.
Besides that, the feeling of violation and having a world you have always known fall apart, as you do, into literal pieces, would be a traumatic experience for anyone. People are used to their head not being split open.
@@Pi-is-Bi Parasyte was my first thought too! Also Venom since that's another symbiote. The issue comes though when there are "evil" ones that wouldn't be okay with sharing control. And creatures (not just humans) always fear what they don't understand
@@BestBES I think no highly intelligent creature likes to share the same body with another. Some of these characters managed to because they were forced into it and there was no way out
Ahh so this is why he took so long he was doing a two parter
The aliens in the comments: "I got to act liek Human"
Also the aliens: * *Likes and Subscribe* *
Biomedical engineer here.
Your explanation of DNA is as good as anyone can do with this sort of scifi.
“You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? … Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.”
XENOMORPH
Lovong your name and profile pic
Alien reference
Wrong movie
I’m a medical student and was able to follow all of the biology portions of this video. It even had one or two things I was unaware of. I’m honestly curious on how much YOU learn about various topics. Wikipedia dives and research about random information can be very rewarding, and so with every video you create and research, you learn a little bit more, sometimes a lot more. I am honestly happy seeing someone learn so much. It gives me hope for humanity
Too bad the humanity Will be assimilated.
You still have it?
@@deon5729 nope xD
@@michael8715 okey XD
"Im not a scientist or anything" literally explains DNA, cells and what they do and how they affect the lore. This man is an absolute knowledge god.
This is literally 7th grade information. Great content maker for sure but not even close to "knowledge god". Or at least it's not directly proven in the videos.
I don't even have my diploma yet and I'm smarter than the scientists in this movie.
A kindergartener asked on what would they do if they were Stalin and got news the Germans were about to reach Moscow through Stalingrad could be smarter than them
I'm thirteen and I'm smarter too 😅
Sorry guys , I don’t buy it . Nearly everyone would be , simply for the fact that we need the plot to advance . Of course they wouldn’t make the characters smart , aside from the protagonist .
We all see imposter as little jelly beans, but this is what crewmates see
lol
True that so resembling to among us
@@summonersriftgarbage4426 When I first played the game, I thought they got their ideas from this movie. The Alien kill animation resembled this movie's monster so much lol.
The thing did inspire among us I do believe
amogsus
For some odd reason, I learnt more in this video about cells, than I have for a whole year in science at school.
AKA: How to beat “Carrion.”
On another note, whenever I tried to classify exactly WHAT the Thing is, I always just fell under the presumption that it is some kind of incomprehensibly evolved life form that has reached such a complete level of biological control over its physical body that it doesn’t even require a fully functioning nervous system in order to retain its intelligence. Much like what the video itself purposes, I believe that its DNA IS the “neurological system” which carries the Thing’s “intelligence.” Its DNA is so intrinsic towards carrying the overall “intelligence” of this entity that the DNA does FAR MORE than just carry instructions for cellular fabrication. The thing’s DNA “intelligence” controls any cells it creates, controls any system that THOSE cells create, controls any organs THOSE systems create, and finally controls whatever organism those ORGANS create. At every level, no matter the cellular complexity OR simplicity, the Thing’s will controls the entire physical form. That would explain why even if its bodily fluids gets exposed to dangers like fire, not only do these replicated fluids react, but the entire replicated ORGANISM it came from reacts as well. The Thing’s CELLS react to outward physical stimuli without the affected cells even possessing neural functions. Its DNA IS its brain. And that implies a kind of biological evolution so impossibly advanced that it actually makes sense how it can create interstellar spacecrafts from junk in the shed.
How long did this take to write
@@recklessragdoll2552 Not too long honestly. I love thinking up sci fi scenarios like these cause I’m a fiction writer myself. I ended up editing it more than anything; to make sure I got my point across.
These are the kinds of comments that make me love comment sections! Thank you!
Holy shit. Yeah; that makes complete sense! And a very good explanation of it as well. I wish the movie creators could be shown this
I always assumed that the thing only copies the outside and voicebox of people and just jammed tentacles and teeth and other stuff into the shell. No organs, just a bag with death in it
When the dog gets infected:
There’s no point to life anymore
the dog is still alive inside childs 😊
It's funny how you mention the whole "fish growing legs and storming the beaches" thing at the end of the video. There was actually a popular horror manga about just that called Gyo, created by renowned horror mangaka Junji Ito. It was about these mechanical spider legs that appeared from nowhere in the ocean, attached themselves to fish, and then made them walk onto the land and attack people.
I literally Red about this in other comments and searched an explanation on the Net...
..and then Red your comment.
@@theblackx9429 did you mean read?
@@grinmace4834 isn't Red the past of read?
@@theblackx9429 Same spelling, but different pronunciation. The past tense sounds like "red".
@@theblackx9429 nah its spelled "read". Just pronounced differently.
One: I do not assimilate more than one human to read his memory and run as a dog to find a polar bear then a fish and I colonize the sea, by the time I start to take care of humans, they'll be no way to stop the thing apocalypse...
The Thing is by far my favorite Movie Monster so to see you go so in depth with the concept of it is so great for me. I love it, especially your command and conquer analogy which really clears up why such a detructively powerful being routinely retreats when faced with open combat. It knows that disappearing and reinfiltrating is much more effective for dominating an entire planet than open conflict would be, which would leave it with diminished resources once the dust settles as it would have been forced to destroy much of the things it could utilize to propagate itself on a new planet. There's a reason why when it screams in the John Carpenter version we've dubbed it "the scream of a thousand dead worlds." It's goal is total domination of all life in the universe, not destruction of it. I think my main problem with this movie (aside from the unreasonable accessibility of flamethrowers) is that this monster seems impatient and reckless. In the original it seems much more willing to just wait, not necessarily eliminate everyone, and keep itself hidden. The new version is quick to attack for absolutely no reason at times, like in the helicopter (where it was literally on it's way out to new populations) or when it detatches an arm after they kill the guy with the flamethrower. Old school Thing would have bided its time, dropped pieces of itself, slowly taken the entire base. It's in no rush, the only reason it's stopped is because time and again the main characters are able to determine who it is and directly confront it at which point it goes all lovecraft to escape.
Human: *humans haunting it down *
The thing: *chilling in the other room on someone's phones watching videos *
You know, for someone who admittedly doesn't know what he's talking about, you sure know what you're talking about.
@33:00 penguins.... My brother (who's in my videos) was there as a researcher and there are a few massive colonies of penguins there
I like how everyone uses the prequel because the people in the John Carpenter one are smart.
You mean paranoid, they are already there because they know some place got knocked the fuck out, their heads up really came when some crazy guy was risking his llife to kill a sled dog and attacking the crew in order to do so, and they also got a lot of creepy-ass documentation from the first crew that got killed, including a photograph of what is clearly a lifeform that did not originate from Earth encased in ice, and maybe even some footage of what is definately a spacecraft that was not of human origin. Basically, they knew something bad might have been out there, and once humans are aware of a threat, they are more vigilant to spot it.
It's why racists are some of the best informed, most intelligent people, and most mentally stable people out there.
This is true btw:
- people who are more likely to agree with the validity of racial sterotypes score higher in IQ tests
- people who live in racially diverse areas are also more likely to beleive in racial sterotypes having validity
- people who self-identify as being on the far right have the least mental issues, while people on the far left have the most of them, particularly when looking for cluster b personality disorders, mood disorders, and psychotic disorders, racists are more likely to be on the autistic spectrum, however.
- people who know more about topics relating to race, science, and history tend to be the most racist and the most likely to exhibit xenophobic and nationalist political attitudes, same goes for those who demonstrate less apathy to these subjects.
- racists have a more active amygdala, which correlates to pattern-finding and conscientiousness
- paradoxically, they tend to demonstrate more empathetic and altruistic behaviours towards those of other races than non-racists or anti-racists, who tend to be more like jerks, this behavioural difference also applies to interactions with those of the same race, they are nicer and more socially involved, they are also notably less affected by group influence (such as bystander effect, authority effect, or peer pressure)
- racists not only score higher on friendliness, they also score higher on de-escalation and peaceful conflict resolution strategies than non-racists and anti-racists, explaining why "far right" terroism is the second most rare motivation for officially-defined terror attacks than behind "miscellaneous/unknown", while "far left" terrorism is the second most common after "islamic extremism", also why racist terror attacks typically are committed by lone actors, compared to the attacks attributed to lefti-wing and islamic causes, which more often involve groups working together. Basically, they may hate other races, but they will never admit it and do not demonstrate it in their interactions with members of other races, while anti-racists are more ikely to practice the behaviour expected from a racist when interacting wth those of other races, even though this is just how they interact with people generally.
- racists are more likely to be autodidacts than non-racists and anti-racists, who are more likely to attend post-secondary education.
- racists are more likely to come from intact and loving families, compared to non-racists and anti-racists, who are more likely to come from single-parent or dysfunctional families.
- racists are more likely to be financially secure and are also more likely to be rated as physically attractive to the opposite sex, non-racists and anti-racists are the opposite, more likely to be rated as less physically appealing (as rated by the opposite sex) and are less financially solvent (more frequently in debt).
- racists are more "light" than the general population when it comes to "dark triad" traits, while anti-racists are more "dark" (meaning they fill more of the dark triad than most people).
- the further one is to the right, the more equal they interact with those of other racists, wile those further to the left tend to change their bahvaiour more in response to knowing the race of their interaction partner, racists are more likely to have close relationships and frequent interactions with those of other races, anti-racists are more likely to isolate themselves around those of the same race.
- racists and anti-racists are more likely to be atheist or non-religious, non-racists are more likely to be religious than either group.
- racists tend to demonstrate better knowledge of scientific methodology and critical thinking skills, and to apply it more often in problem solving, situation analysis, and in everyday living, they are allso less affected by social pressures, anti-racists tend towards a more dogmatic and assumption based thought and think emotionally rather than rationally, they are also more affected by social environment, this ties into the fact that racists tend to be on the stronger scale of the autistic spectrum, which is associated with this hyper-logic that frequently leads to social problems, while anti-racists tend towards personality disorders and mood disorders that are more characterized by irrational and emotional thinking.
- "but autism also is characterized by difficulty with understanding other peoople's perspectives", yes, in children and unadjusted adults, and also dysfunctional autistics this is true, but high-functioning autists are not psychopaths that lack concern for how others think and feel, and tend to learn how to interact with other people over time, often to a superior degree than most people.
The fact is that Norway is much more left wing and anti-racist than The United States, especially during the 80's when this movie and the prequel takes place, may have a lot to do with their superior odds of survival.
@@EVERYVERSER Are you really using this movie to validate being racist and give us facts without providing any sources (which are bs btw)? lol.
@@RainbowOnTheHorizon thank god I scrolled down and didn’t read that
@@EVERYVERSER I feel bad for your parents
@@EVERYVERSER tf did u do copypaste a wiki? Cuz my god that was long
I absolutely love this idea for a twist to the usual "how to beat"
after assimilating one human, who wants a drink, everyone gets assimilated at once
“The humans about to be strangled by the weaponized dagiblits of their former friends”
their*
I like how 20 minutes of the video is just trying to explain what the hell The Thing is
Man, the first one was so much more "beautiful" in an artistic sense. 80's movies killed it without CGI.
What does a 1951 movie have to do at all with 80s movies?
@@ryanhogge8 I don't understand your question.
The first thing was made in 1951. Are you saying that the second one from 1982 was bad because it didn't have CGI, or it was better than the original because of the effects? Because neither had CGI.
@@ryanhogge8He’s saying the second one is better due to its lack of CGI than the 3rd one. I’m assuming he didn’t know about the black and white version of the thing. But I assume you knew that and you were just being picky and anal.
@@ryanhogge8 Yes...
“I’m really hoping none of you understand as i say bull shit” me: I only took Biology all 4 years of high school, don’t ask me chemistry I don’t know shit about chemistry
I do.
Team?
uhm....... Biology has a tad bit of Chemistry in it bruh :V
You should do a video about 'Until Dawn'
yes ... Yes......YESs...........
YESSssssssssSsSSSsSSsSSSssSsssssSsSsSsSsssSsSs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the game kinda explains the Wendigo
Yes ... but I think that people would rarely survive in a real life setting and
....... that’s about it
"I'm not a scientist" Moments later: Proceeds to bombard me with an entire Thesis on a fictional character's anatomy IN PERFECT DETAIL. 😂😂😂
Naw the best method is:
step 1: cover yourself in oil
2. Go out in the rain.
3. Fly away because oil floats on water.
@@chungowungo769 you ruined it
@@daikolirae155 u gonna do it?
No?
OK fine I will
R/WOOOOSH
@@daikolirae155 I thought it was funny to each their own fam
@@Astro-un3fe leave
This is probably the reason “among us” was made
Ya
@Leanne Webber and also fun fact: Among us was based on a dream the creator had
@@itzsir5418 well, the impostor it's a parasite, a mean, it seems pretty Similar
The results are pretty underwhelming then lol
@@thegk-verse4216 Imagine seeing the humans melting into each other and turning into a fucked up version of the exorcist while playing Among Us. I'd be horrified to touch my PC for a good bit.
21:27 while I don’t have any scientific explanation to The Thing
Roanoke Gaming does
Also enjoyed your explanation
Okay, I love this. Being the little devil on a movie villain's shoulder is actually really fun. Would definitely like to see more of these, Nerd Explains!
I would’ve flown my spaceship into Jupiter since the gravity is so immense that it can play with its moons like for example Io and at the core of Jupiter it’s hotter than the outside layer of the sun (sun: 5778k, Jupiter: 20273k)
don't think it can fuck with planets
@@mrporbig yeah especially a planet so harsh not even the most resilient of bacteria. In fact I don't even think bacteria live on Jupiter, which means if bacteria can't survive, NOTHING can survive
This is one of my favorite videos from nerd explains.
You can tell, despite not knowing the topics, they still put in the time and effort to do some research to get a rough guess on how some of these things work... which is pretty awesome... and nerdy :D
This movie messed me up as a child
I see you also had the dream of becoming a streamer/content creators for video games. It’s sad on how many of us quit
@Controversial cow I haven’t quit yet bro,I’m still getting all my equipment so that way I can put stuff out yk.
this wasn't that bad for me but 'Mortuary' really fucked with me so bad that i stopped talking for an entire week, honestly it's probably why i don't do well when im close to others
Him: This video is sponsored by raid: shado-
Me: NO.
not even a good game and its a script he was given but mans gotta get money
This comment is sponsored by rai-
*Reply gets deleted*
@@recklessragdoll2552 this reply is sponsored by raid shadow legends use the code NO for 0 gold and other things game just included.
@@thetableofelements4472 no.. NO
Man I watch youtube to get my mind of school ;( you reminded me of the 57 missing assignments i had in science in 6th grade
Nerd Explains more like Good Content once a month
Please upload more often 🥺🥺🥺
In all fairness, depending on the amount of editing he does, it may not be possible to upload more frequently without paying a bunch if editors
stfu
@@hwcloflo nahhhh I'm good.
Why don't you fucking research an entire video, edit it, voice it, and upload it, stop complaining, he is not a circus monkey you can make dance around.
33:26 "I'm just imagining 3 trillion fish sprouting legs and storming the beaches worldwide." Look up Gyo. That's what that would look like.
► Part 2: ruclips.net/video/KkhhWFNRVN4/видео.html
First person to say first
I thought this would be a rickroll
Shouldn't u pin this?
i wonder why so little see this
Do “How To Beat Chernobyl Diaries” the movie where the group of friends get trapped in Chernobyl
Ngl they pulled flame throwers out there asses
What no! Those are portable heaters
They're scientists, the flamethrowers are for science
@@shatterednova_ ah yes the best science, torching everything that moves.
@@lordeverett5642 the first thing the russians did when investigating the elephants foot in chernobyl was shoot it with an ak-47
@@lordeverett5642 Couldn't have said it better myself
I would put some of my blood or saliva in the water source to start. Maybe put some saliva on cans and bottles too. Be active why everyone else is asleep and just infect everyone at night while acting fully human during the day. Not alert them to my abilities keeping that secret as long as possible.
22:20 "Northern Antarctica". So basically all of Antarctica apart from the south pole? My brain hurts.
The level of patience and determination you have to just explain this amazes me.
23:00 I always assumed the Thing pointed the ship toward Earth and all the last surviving alium could do was adjust the course to hit the icy pole.
If the Thing had the same iq as Nerd explains. It was have took less then a week to take over the whole world. But me I would just become his slave.
"Three trillion fish sprouting legs" is that a GYO REFERENCE
They missed the whole point of the original when they made this movie. They just hung on the body horror, did it with cgi, & made The Thing show itself constantly with random teeth & tentacles
This mans ad transitions are so smooth.
Lmao the best part is that in the film it shows "the thing" cells taking the DNA of red blood cells in order to take control and look like them. There's just one fatal flaw... red blood cells do not contain a nucleus or DNA xD
So, if I was infected by The Thing, would I still be here? Would I still identify as myself, only a Thing version of myself?
Or would I start to fade as soon as it reaches my brain, deleting my personality and selfawareness completely?
Also, if infected by the Thing, could I just make myself into a unicorn and run off into the sunset?
a very ugly unicorn yes
be a pegasus instead, so you can FLY into the sunset.
Same way the thing couldnt turn human without human dna… then no
@@war.neverchanges then eat horse.
Does homework:
Nerd explains posts:
Me: wanna see sum real speed?
lmao just got done with homework and i saw his upload. You already know.
@@colinm2098 sorry I’m late to reply, but you already know, it’s to go down-
the design for those bipedal creatures are so terrifying, they did a really good job
here is a great idea, the thing could reveal itself, and lie about being an ambassador from space, that way, not only would the humans not attack or seek to destroy the thing, but they could actively protect the thing
The “from a single cell” theory doesn’t hold water and has been pretty throughly debunked.
The human body has specialized cells who’s only job is to use chemical signals to identify and destroy other human cells that aren’t as they should be. These cells are constantly at work, preventing us from getting cancer.
Most microbiologists agree that without these cells, we’d all die of cancer before age 30.
And it just so happens that the exact kind of chemical markers these cells use to identify cancer cells, are the same as the chemical markers a thing cell would have.
Carpenter himself confirmed that the Thing can’t infect a healthy immune system with just a single cell, it has to get enough of its cells into a potential host to meet its MID threshold.
The only reason that one of the characters mentions “one small piece” of the thing being able to infect people, is because he was unaware of how the Thing’s biology worked, and was being extra cautious as a result.
Which was understandable, given the circumstances.
MID = Minimum Infectious Dose.
So the thing should simply try to go in japan.
There its tentacles would be in good use for the japanese culture and it could shoot his contagious viscous liquids without limits.
It would not even need to blend in, it could traumatize himself though.
The thing was a lot more than one cell by the time they were there, and most definitely broke the MID thing you were talking about. Also, who’s to say that it overtook a human 1st?
Well, I personally think it's possible. I mean, if it can replicate our cells perfectly, then our immune system won't be able to detected it, unless he copied a cell like cancer cell, which is supposed to be destroyed.
Well, one thing I find interesting is in the first movie, someone dies of a heart attack. They try to revive him only to learn it was a thing.
It didnt know how a healthy cardiac cell is made like, so when it infected him, it imitated his heart condition.
This indicates that yes thing cells can imitate foriegn cells perfectly imo..
@@blackwingBF The immune system doesn’t use visual cues to identify cells, it uses chemical signals.
Cytotoxic T Cells are cells who’s only job is to find and destroy cancer cells. They find cancer cells by using chemical markers to find cells who’s DNA is incorrect.
It is impossible for Thing cells to completely avoid detection from cytotoxic T cells, because part of the Thing’s base genetic structure HAS to remain in order for a Thing cell to stay a Thing cell. This is because the instructions for how a Thing cell should behave, and what physical capabilities it has, are all located in its DNA.
If a Thing cell completely altered its DNA so that it only had the DNA of a human cell, then it would actually be just a normal human cell at that point.
Me: not knowing anything
Him: the cells probably reproduce through mitosis
Me finally understanding something 😂
From what I recall The Thing can't die from freezing nor fire, it just shows it down
I love 20 minutes of "general framework" I can't get enough!
That beginning of the vid taught me more than school ever has.
33:27 this is literally the story of Gyo, a relatively short story manga written by Junji Ito, if you ever wanna spread your content and make it about a horror manga, that's a good start, i can imagine a "can you survive the killing fish bio-machines in Gyo?" video lmao
So what was the original alien intend
Crash land to take the parasite out with him or the parasite decides to land, freeze himself with the alien and send a distress signal inorder to get saved
I literally just watched "How to beat The Thing", and this just popped up in my recommended.
While imitating the subject, it probably couldn’t immediately make something like a spare brain, but once it completes assimilation it could probably remove non-needed organs like an appendix in exchange for a mini brain.
This guy shud have 10mil subs and i am following him since he had 10k and suddenly subbed cus i knew he will blow up
The thing: I'm unkillable fool
The mini black holes in Washington:
👁👄👁
Nerd explains: "I'm just hoping this is so complicated no one notices it's BS"
Me: " oh yeah that makes so much sense I agree"
33:27 japan already claimed it. i don't remember the name of the manga buuut that's already a thing (nopunintended)
A new nerd explains video! finally!
" *part one* "
Oh boy, its gonna be a while.
33:28 boy do I have news for you about junji ito’s horror manga “gyo”…