| ▲ | reafev a day ago | |||||||
I understand the risk of mirror life i.e. mitochondrion that eat mirror sugar molecules. But I think that mirror chloroplast, that make mirror (beta) sugar inside regular planet cells can be a good way to fix carbon, without any way to free the co2 back besides fire. What's the danger in that? | ||||||||
| ▲ | orborde 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Mirror chloroplasts do not seem very risky, but the ability to create them is probably close to equivalent to the ability to create whole mirror bacteria/algae, so figuring out how to make mirror chloroplasts is a very risky line of research best refrained from. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | alephnerd a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
The danger is that (to quote Jurassic Park) "life always finds a way", and the risks are massive. A good example of the risks of mirror chirality is thalidomide - thalidomide has two enantiomers (one that provides sedative and anti-nausea effects and another that causes the infamous thalidomide birth defects) which the human body naturally flip-flops when administered. The risk to reward ratio is negatively misaligned (edited) when factoring the catastrophic risks and how easy it would be to weaponize (either on purpose or inadvertently). | ||||||||
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