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minus-squareaberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58·5 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-up28·4 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-up17·4 days agoI should’ve known that word
minus-squarezero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 days agoMass Effect has a similar idea. There are species that eat levo foods and ones that eat dextro foods.
minus-squarenxdefiant@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-24 days agoHeh, eating isn’t the only time they have to worry about protein absorption.
minus-squarecallyral [he/they]@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 days agodemand they mirror your food too
minus-squaredexa_scantron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 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
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.
demand they mirror your food too
There’s a great YA book about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Reversed_Himself?wprov=sfla1