Once when i was sick, i recalled a really important phone number that i had forgotten some 6 months prior. i made sure to write it down then

I know the feeling. I haven't read anything in the last year or more. Hard to find time

Yes but if you don't have the most basic understanding of science, you could just start by reading up on it and getting a more general education. Then you might have more well thought out questions instead of the stuff i see here all time.

it seems like lately every post i see from this sub is just some person asking a question based on total misunderstanding of some fundamental thing. same reason i unsubbed from eli5. and pretty much why i'm gonna unsub from this one right now. so long!

have you read the book 'pathfinder'? and it's sequels. it goes all crazy with this exact kind of scenario. it's by orson scott card. it does have the annoying parts of his writing style tho.

afaik that's not true at all. Rabies isnt a "few hours" sort of disease unless you got bit on the neck maybe. Most bites are on extremities. If you are bit you have to get the vaccine within a limited amount of time, like a day or 2 (before it spreads to the brain) in order for it to be effective. If you get it too late it's a done deal. Something like 1 person ever has survived untreated rabies (last i read about it 10 years ago maybe more now) and basically that person was put into an induced coma to give the brain a chance to recover from the virus on its own. There's no "treatment" for rabies