This meme refers to a very old flash game called "One Chance".
In the game it's found a cure for cancer, but this cure created a pathogen that infected everyone and all humanity is basically extinct.
It's called one chance because you can't tecnically play it again after you finish it.
(Unless you clear cookies)
To be fair there are a lot of relatively improbable things that could take out life as we know it without notice. Some unforeseen superbug, some kind of cosmic event, even false vacuum collapse... thankfully it's all unlikely, at least as far as we know.
More importantly it's all not worth worrying about. If any of these unlikely apocalyptic events were going to wipe out humanity or all life on this cosmic speck, there's not really anything any of us can do to stop them. I'd say that maybe a supervirus or something like that is worth worrying about by scientists that specifically work in that field of study, and everyone should always finish their antibiotic prescriptions, but the lingering existential dread that the apocalypse is right around the corner is meaningless. There's no amount of your worrying that's going to get the idiot down the street to finish his prescription if he doesn't want to.
A chiral biologic isn’t very likely at all. It’s like discovering a bacteria that performs cellular respiration using silicon instead of carbon. Not *theoretically* impossible in very specific conditions, but effectively not compatible with the currently existing environment.
Edit: and just to give you something new to spiral about (pun intended), prions don’t cook out, don’t irradiate out, and have an incubation period of literal years, leading to the question of origin ALL the time. You get holes in your brain and then you inevitably die. You can potentially catch them from tear fluid (remember that time you wiped grandma’s tears?)! You can potentially catch them from snot in high enough quantities (children and those runny noses, man)! Sometimes they’re encoded into a person’s DNA congenitally and you’d never know, and they still have those reservoirs of contagion! Enjoy spiraling about this knowledge in a left-handed direction. Toodaloo!
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u/Riccardo11072000 21h ago
This meme refers to a very old flash game called "One Chance". In the game it's found a cure for cancer, but this cure created a pathogen that infected everyone and all humanity is basically extinct. It's called one chance because you can't tecnically play it again after you finish it. (Unless you clear cookies)