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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

I should’ve known that word

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mass Effect has a similar idea. There are species that eat levo foods and ones that eat dextro foods.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Heh, eating isn't the only time they have to worry about protein absorption.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

demand they mirror your food too

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

This, the mirroring part, also happens in an Arthur C. Clarke short story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Error