Comment on Dimensions
aberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 months ago
Mass Effect has a similar idea. There are species that eat levo foods and ones that eat dextro foods.
nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 months ago
Heh, eating isn’t the only time they have to worry about protein exchange.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 months ago
callyral@pawb.social 4 months ago
demand they mirror your food too
dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There’s a great YA book about this: en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Boy_Who_Reversed_Himself?w…
chtk@feddit.nl 4 months ago
This, the mirroring part, also happens in an Arthur C. Clarke short story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Error