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minus-squareaberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60·8 days agoI forget where I heard this but someone mentioned that a 4-dimensional being could mirror you. Doesn’t sound so bad until you realize your amino acids & stuff would all be the opposite chirality, which means you could no longer process food.
minus-squarechtk@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down1·8 days agoThis, the mirroring part, also happens in an Arthur C. Clarke short story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Error
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·8 days agoI should’ve known that word
minus-squarecallyral [he/they]@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·8 days agodemand they mirror your food too
minus-squarezero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·8 days agoMass Effect has a similar idea. There are species that eat levo foods and ones that eat dextro foods.
minus-squarenxdefiant@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-27 days agoHeh, eating isn’t the only time they have to worry about protein absorption.
minus-squaredexa_scantron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 days agoThere’s a great YA book about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Reversed_Himself?wprov=sfla1
I forget where I heard this but someone mentioned that a 4-dimensional being could mirror you. Doesn’t sound so bad until you realize your amino acids & stuff would all be the opposite chirality, which means you could no longer process food.
This, the mirroring part, also happens in an Arthur C. Clarke short story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Error
I should’ve known that word
demand they mirror your food too
Mass Effect has a similar idea. There are species that eat levo foods and ones that eat dextro foods.
Heh, eating isn’t the only time they have to worry about protein absorption.
There’s a great YA book about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Reversed_Himself?wprov=sfla1