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aberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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chtk@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This, the mirroring part, also happens in an Arthur C. Clarke short story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Error

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brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I should’ve known that word

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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Mass Effect has a similar idea. There are species that eat levo foods and ones that eat dextro foods.

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- nxdefiant@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Heh, eating isn’t the only time they have to worry about protein exchange.
  
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  - zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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callyral@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
demand they mirror your food too

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dexa_scantron@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There’s a great YA book about this: en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Boy_Who_Reversed_Himself?w…

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