Mirror life research

[William Huggins]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9158

It's pretty scary research.

 

[Berserker13]

literally have idiots trying to set me up at every job I get

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Summary?

 

[William Huggins]

Summary?

All life as we know it arises from 'right-handed' nucleotides in our DNA and RNA, and 'left-handed' amino acids that come together to form proteins.

Mirrored life would switch that round and could create life that's totally alien to the status quo on this planet, it's pretty difficult to comprehend the extent of damage that could cause.

 

[William Huggins]

literally have idiots trying to set me up at every job I get.

Literally or figuratively?

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

All life as we know it arises from 'right-handed' nucleotides in our DNA and RNA, and 'left-handed' amino acids that come together to form proteins.

Mirrored life would switch that round and could create life that's totally alien to the status quo on this planet, it's pretty difficult to comprehend the extent of damage that could cause.

Oh fascinating, so your saying Mirrored Life can make this world a left handed world? How long will that take?

And why would they do this?

 

[William Huggins]

Oh fascinating, so your saying Mirrored Life can make this world a left handed world? How long will that take?

And why would they do this?

It's more of a mirror, so reversed.....

They'll say to discover novel substances and chemicals but just end up getting up to no good.

 

[TheTickG]

That writing reminds me of the crazy scientists in that downsizing movie.

 

[Gene Tunney]

Summary?

 

[Contempt]

"Our analysis suggests that mirror bacteria would likely evade many immune mechanisms mediated by chiral molecules, potentially causing lethal infection in humans, animals, and plants. They are likely to evade predation from natural-chirality phage and many other predators, facilitating spread in the environment. We cannot rule out a scenario in which a mirror bacterium acts as an invasive species across many ecosystems, causing pervasive lethal infections in a substantial fraction of plant and animal species, including humans. Even a mirror bacterium with a narrower host range and the ability to invade only a limited set of ecosystems could still cause unprecedented and irreversible harm."

Well shit, sounds like a complete no-brainer... we should get onto making these ASAP

A perfect example of: "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".

 

[Spam On Rye]

Nerds gonna kill us all.

 

[wufabufa]

There's a Netflix documentary about that

 

[William Huggins]

"Our analysis suggests that mirror bacteria would likely evade many immune mechanisms mediated by chiral molecules, potentially causing lethal infection in humans, animals, and plants. They are likely to evade predation from natural-chirality phage and many other predators, facilitating spread in the environment. We cannot rule out a scenario in which a mirror bacterium acts as an invasive species across many ecosystems, causing pervasive lethal infections in a substantial fraction of plant and animal species, including humans. Even a mirror bacterium with a narrower host range and the ability to invade only a limited set of ecosystems could still cause unprecedented and irreversible harm."

Well shit, sounds like a complete no-brainer... we should get onto making these ASAP

A perfect example of: "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".

The question is can we beat the mirror humans......

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

 

[Contempt]

The question is can we beat the mirror humans......

Maybe mirror Contempt is just a super nice, respectful guy... I'd beat him up, take his lunch money and give him a wedgie.

 

[Meatspin]

Maybe mirror Contempt is just a super nice, respectful guy... I'd beat him up, take his lunch money and give him a wedgie.

No swirly? But that's the best finishing move LOL

 

[KnightTemplar]

Summary?