The Last of Us - This is How it Could Actually Happen... And it's Terrifying!

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"The Last of Us" Zombie Disease is a fungal infection that spreads through spores of the Cordyceps fungus, causing humans to become aggressive and lose their cognitive abilities. The infected are known as "Clickers".
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[@drewd2]

That was awesome! I had no clue about the ants being infected by fungus.

[@blissmaster71]

Well there's our plot for the final season of Discovery: they've shared the spore drive tech with the fleet, they start using 32nd century evolved mycelium, it zombifies the entire federation! If Craft in Short Treks: Calypso had kissed Zora, she would have put the mycelium in his mouth and made him a Zombie as well

[@mixedtees]

Hahahaha

[@blissmaster71]

The show is worth watching, just not right before bed or dinner

[@nicholasgendreau1297]

Great video. I really like the new take on traditional zombie ideas, especially when they are at least loosely based on science and a real threat (kind of)

[@benjerminward8157]

It can still happen

[@benjerminward8157]

In real life

[@gigachad4782]

@@benjerminward8157 not really

[@benjerminward8157]

Well then we are safe

[@benjerminward8157]

From that anyway

[@Emanon...]

I'll add it to the pile of extinction events that can happen any given day. Sleep tight

[@mixedtees]

Amen to that.

[@Emerald16028]

I personally think that everyone right now won’t be alive when we turn to fungus zombie but hey that’s what I think

[@RJ.Farr8]

Thanks! 👋

[@JohnTLyon]

That T-shirt should say, "Endure, Adapt, Survive." Because if we don't, we lose. THE END.

[@Wrightmcclure]

I am ready, bring it on.

[@wondergirl60s]

Mycelium is my fave!🙏🤘💫🍄❤️😜🙏

[@charlescoffey9523]

Never give up, never say die

[@ladaprchal5471]

I wonder.... there was this guy who studies it his whole life, he said he would be that lady from E2 and he claims that this is very unprobable. The fungus is specialized on a specific spicies of ants. It took milions of years, too, for fungus to get there. How probable is chance that random fungus will evolve such rapidly and get specifically on humans? Basically impossible...

[@ThePopcast]

Yes there are a lot of takes on this. We might even have that guy in this video. Although it is more than 1 species of Ants as well as some other insects. As long as they can't adapt to our body temperatures, you are right it is impossible. Humans of the future, keep an eye on this ;)

[@macmann3902]

There's a fungus among us... 🤣🤣

[@ThePopcast]

Best Dad Jokes!

[@FRACTUREDVISIONmusic]

Well, watched some scientist and health people talking about the idea of this type of fungus jumping species - not likely, at all. I'd be more concerned with every day varieties of disease mutating onto something that takes out mankind. Fwiw, ants and humans have significantly different immune systems. Perhaps, worry more about that pizza or sub sandwich you left out for too long.

[@chawk678]

Global cooling➡️ Global warming➡️ Climate change ➡️ Last of Us fear porn. Well played.

[@patrickroe3260]

It doesn't help when a segment of the population refuses to get a vacination to help reduce the effects of a disease. I was very young maybe 4 or 5 when a anti-polio vacination was discovered. People couldn't get their children vacinated fast enough. Polio could kill and severely cripple. Nobody wanted to be a victim of polio. There were several people in my neighborhood that were victims of the disease, one adult and two children. A vacination to protect was a miracle. Now, people get stupid ideas about vacinations, some refusing to get one. This makes it possible that more people will be victims of disease, the disease will spread and mutate.

[@TheForceUnleashed]

Given this a lot of thought. I think it has something to do with a breakdown in the trust of Media and our government over the last couple of decades with the rise of the internet. It used to be you trusted your family, the news and the government to do right by you. You didn't have access to any more information than you could get on the nightly news or the Library. The internet plugged us into everything all the time. And that has eroded the trust in our institutions. So are people stupid or are they afraid because now they've seen behind the curtain and what they've seen has shaken their confidence? Good food for thought.

[@benjerminward8157]

If humans survive millions of years into the future

[@benjerminward8157]

Then it is possible

[@Emanon...]

It's purely fictional. Sure, fungus can mutate to use mammals as well as insects, but in that case it should have already happened in the millions of years of evolution prior. Climate change ie a warmer planet wouldn't, in an evolutionary sense, do anything unless we're talking absolutely catastrophic leves of temperature increase.

[@masamune2984]

The climate change isn’t the problem. Some species of fungus has mutated and evolved at hyper rates of only a few decades, if not less, to fit warmer climates. The problem is the sheer complexity of the biology of most mammals…although parasites like toxoplasma have already achieved that. Purely fictional? Absolutely not. Incredibly, extremely unlikely? Definitely.

[@MemeNutsDeez]

Whats to say it hasn't already happened, then died off cuz it couldn't spread?

[@benjerminward8157]

If humans survive millions of years into the future

[@benjerminward8157]

Then it's possible

[@Emanon...]

@@benjerminward8157 I guess anything is possible, but mammals have existed for at least 70 million years and fungi have yet to be able to infect mammals in the way portrayed in the show. Fungal fections are pretty common. A network of interconnected mycelia hijacking our nervous system is very much science fiction...