Great video so far, but about 1:30 into the video and I'm thinking to myself, "what if the "virus" was actually multiple viruses meant to infect numerous species simultaneously?", and that's what made it so difficult to cure. Cure/contain one of the strains, you haven't really wiped it out, because the cure presented to one had no (mass) effect on the independent biochemistry needed to impact the other strains.

I like your mass effect vids. Would like to see more

I was musing quietly to myself about the mycelial network meme you do, thinking, "there's no way he would work it into a Mass Effect video...." and I was wrong.

This is such an interesting topic. Thank you.

Great video, in-depth as always but also quite fun. I've heard the Panspermia theory many times but i've never heard the most obvious question asked. If we were planted here by aliens... then how did they spring into life. If it can happen in one place it can happen somewhere else.

@mr.voidroy6869

Ай бұрын

Panspermia doesn't mean we were seeded it just means that life has been spreading around forever.

Damn dawg. Did you really climb on your roof to shout out "I, for one, think the trail of tears was a bad thing!"? I can't wait until I'm back in a position where I can afford to be a member of this channel

@amphilochusofmallus5070

7 ай бұрын

Everything in this video is why I love your channel. Just passed the "mycelial network" bit. Please just keep all your bits, I love them. I don't care how many times I see them.

@OrangeRiver

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Lol. That clip was actually an excerpt of my TNG seasons 5-7 retrospective haha

Another quality video! Keep up the great work!

@OrangeRiver

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Angstony!

Its mycelium network all the way down

A few flaws with your theory. You can't always take what the art team say as fact. They don't generally have much input when it comes to lore. Aesthetically, the reason most aliens look the same is because in mass effect 1 they only had a human skeleton for animation so any alien race meant to play a major role in that game needed to be humanoid. The in-universe explanation for why all aliens are so similar is convergent evolution (ie: It's just a coincidence as a result of all of them evolving in similar biospheres). This explanation was provided by Drew Karpyshyn, lead writer for ME1, cowriter for ME2 and writer of mass effect's first 3 tie-in books. As for the plague. The reason it infects multiple races is that it was genetically engineered to do so. It's acknowledged in-game that the virus shouldn't be able to cross species boundaries, but it does. The reason why it doesn't affect humans is due to genetic diversity. Humanity as a species is far younger than almost every other race in the galaxy. Thousands of years of intermingling as made each species more genetically homogeneous. Where as human genetic diversity somehow provides humans with an immunity to the plague.

I thought the disease affected many species due to the similarities between them. For example, there are drinks that humans and asari can drink but are toxic to turians and quarians.

I should go

Hi 👋 Tyler thanks for another fantastic informative piece respect I love mass effect 😀 😎 thanks for the memories I played this game to death back in the day 😊keep up the fantastic work Tyler respect 🙏 🫡

@OrangeRiver

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Jamie!

It could just replace elements of the body with similar ones or, add a few isotopes to h2o and you get heavy water. What would replacing every molecule of water with heavy water do to a person?

Toss a coin to your River

@OrangeRiver

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@beaver6d9

7 ай бұрын

@@OrangeRiver my pleasure!

Everything always circles back to the Mycelia Network. 😆 🤣 😂

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Yet the theory falls apart with the virus affecting turians with their dextro amino acid structures, and the rest with levo amino acid structures. In universe, those two are utterly incompatible. They simply do not work with each other. Ingesting matter from the opposite type either doesn't provide nutrients, or causes a brutal allergic reaction and doesn't provide nutrients. It is also noted that diseases can't cross the barrier either. So the immunity is solely down to the virus being engineered.

@OrangeRiver

6 ай бұрын

Well, it's not so much that the theory itself is invalidated by what we know about the Omega plague, but yeah, it being bioengineered is definitely the primary culprit. I just thought this video would be a nice opportunity to tie some of these concepts together.

Probably the biggest reason why the aliens have some similarities with humans, is all explained by just looking at our own evolution Like why we have thumbs? It makes easier to use tools and that's an advantage for sapient species

I wanna like this video but it's likes are at 404, and I cant ruin that.

@Domjot5569

6 ай бұрын

@subraxas your 2 weeks late it was 404

@Domjot5569

6 ай бұрын

I like it now too so thanks

Hey Orange, I have a new video idea for you. How do the Gorn from Star Trek compare to the Xenomorph aliens from Alien? Which is worse? After watching Strange New Worlds and the Alien movie franchise, I've come to realize that the Gorn and Xenomorphs are pretty similar.

someone needs to start a counter for every time he makes fun of star trek discovery