Ancestors

Toot

Written by erica_sea55 on 2024-12-13 at 19:19

Oh goodo, another way for humans to stuff up the planet. Maybe that’s why we have never detected any intelligent aliens out there….

Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/12/unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research

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Descendants

Written by Charlie Stross on 2024-12-13 at 20:05

@erica_sea55 TLDR is: nothing to see here, they're just jumping at their own shadows. (Mirror life should be perfectly safe in the lab as long as it's designed to depend on at least one amino acid or nucleoside it can't synthesize from scratch. In which case, you've got a built-in "off" switch.)

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Written by erica_sea55 on 2024-12-14 at 09:58

@cstross cool thanks, I know nothing about the subject

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