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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish60•1 year 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-squarechtklinkfedilinkEnglish29•1 year agoThis, the mirroring part, also happens in an Arthur C. Clarke short story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Error
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•1 year agoMass Effect has a similar idea. There are species that eat levo foods and ones that eat dextro foods.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-21 year agoHeh, eating isn’t the only time they have to worry about protein absorption.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year 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
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
I should’ve known that word