some reasons to not freak out about this entirely speculative please do not trust anything I say in any directionhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1420989331242557448 …
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4. if we can synthesize mirror cyanobacteria we can certainly synthesize mirror cyanophages. cyanophages are viruses that specialize in killing cyanobacteria. mirror cyanophages would only be able to infect mirror cyanobacteria this might effectively check their growth
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5. there exist non-mirror enzymes that break that break down mirror glucose and there's a well-understood way to transfer enzymes to bacteria so we just seed the ocean with anti-mirror glucose enzyme and that lets bacteria consume it after all
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6. I have no idea what de novo enzyme design is like right now but by the time we figure out fully synthetic life--ehhhhh maybe we have protein design figured out too. so we might not be limited to known natural enzymes for breaking down mirror molecules as in (5)
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I knew an old lady who released mirror cyanobacteria into the ocean
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Is a combination of L/R life thinkable? E.g. L-mitochondria in symbiosis with R microbes providing energy flow in non-chiral forms?
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I have negative clue on the topic but I imagine being the only thing around able to eat a proliferating new life form would seem extremely adaptive if possible.
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