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What a fascinating idea! Never considered the idea that what hemisphere-of-the-earth life started-in could have influenced our molecular chirality! Does anyone
by danwills 3y ago
What a fascinating idea! Never considered the idea that what hemisphere-of-the-earth life started-in could have influenced our molecular chirality!
Does anyone else reckon that homo-chiral life could have some advantages? Ie life in-which either-molecular-chirality still works with all the biomechanics somehow.. If that is even possible?! I'm not saying it definitely is! Just a sci-fi-ish idea that I thought was interesting.
Maybe this would be such a complex (and outside-the-attractor) problem that it would've taken a fair-few more billions of years for evolution to have a chance of finding? This might make it mostly off-the table for us (or even similar beings elsewhere-in-the-universe?) Our sun (and most stars) will most-likely have some crazy stuff going on by then?! I'm hoping we can explore something like this synthetically somehow if/when humans become space-faring, and that it can harden-without-fundamentally-changing the underlying organism (and is also something that can be inherited by their children too, assuming that it works well!).
- distortionfield 3y ago> Does anyone else reckon that homo-chiral life could have some advantages? No idea, but this topic is explored a bit in the Expanse books. They note that the alien lifeforms found on Ilus have chirality different from those of earth, and explore the consequences of that a little bit. They do a pretty good job of building out the native alien life on the planet in the books, and the show touched on it a little as well.