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minus-squareaberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months 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-squarezero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoMass Effect has a similar idea. There are species that eat levo foods and ones that eat dextro foods.
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI should’ve known that word
minus-squarechtk@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThis, the mirroring part, also happens in an Arthur C. Clarke short story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Error
minus-squaredexa_scantron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months 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.
Mass Effect has a similar idea. There are species that eat levo foods and ones that eat dextro foods.
I should’ve known that word
This, the mirroring part, also happens in an Arthur C. Clarke short story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Error
There’s a great YA book about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Reversed_Himself?wprov=sfla1