all of this is to say that the sons of bitches who published this have managed to take an unfathomably complex and incredibly delicate molecular machine developed over god knows how many millions of years such that its orientation is the same in all known life,
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im inclined to extend benefit of the doubt here because theyre claiming (i) to have actually built something that (ii) doesnt contravene laws of physics as they currently exist and (iii) has no obvious political valence but yes who knows it may be trash https://twitter.com/edibleflowerga1/status/1420964967981928448?s=19 …
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update probably real https://twitter.com/halvorz/status/1420976494235602947?s=19 …
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as far as applications we're like a hop skip and a jump from solving climate change and peak oil in a fell swoop [joke tweet]https://twitter.com/asingleoat/status/1420954835805884416?s=19 …
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gonna pat myself on the back for apparently independently deriving a standard view of the ecological dangers of mirror life so yes if mirror cyanobacteria escaped from a lab we would probably all die fortunately biology labs are proven extremely securehttps://twitter.com/prawncis/status/1420982623048925187?s=19 …
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an upside of a mirror cyanobacteria escape and population explosion would be that huge quantities of CO2 would be extracted from the atmosphere, solving global warning apart from the mass extinction of R-DNA life there may other minor side effectshttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event …
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In principle if you wanted to do Dangerous Genetic Experimentation you could make a levo-version because it would never be able to live outside a lab, also everything would cost about 10,000,000x more
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That assumes there isn't an extant levo world that we haven't detected because we have the wrong tools. Obviously there aren't levo tigers, but perhaps there's a levo bacteria world we're not aware of?
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a left-handed spacefaring species comes across us and is dismayed to discover that we've been creating insanely dangerous bioproducts but we've done it all in left-handed biology because that way it's safe
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