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Josh2299 :
Our immune system would easily attack mirror bacteria the immune system isn’t dependent on that
2025-08-19 22:19:35
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Jonathan Stern :
I mean “taking up space” is also what cancer does
2025-08-19 21:07:28
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itisnotme :
Pardon , why would you assert we have no defenses? White blood cells routinely remove things that are garbage. If it reached colonizing volume, I see your point. But then we would just be relying on debridement, lavage, or irrigation, and dialysis.
2025-08-19 23:20:01
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laserus666 :
we wouldn't be competing with mirror life
2025-08-19 20:40:51
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chaos chaos :
Are there any potential benefits?
2025-08-19 20:59:44
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Dr Darren Abbey :
Antibodies would interact with mirror life just fine. They interact via the surface shape, not the chirality of the bonds within the volume of the thing they're binding to.
2025-08-20 06:26:18
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Bothbagel :
ugh, so you're going a bit outside of your element here. First off while protein have an L chiral preference DNA has a D chiral preference in most cases but can assume L conformation. Its not as black and white as being universally opposite. You could make an organism that prefers D chiral orientation; that will effect enzymatic activity and specificity but that is not exactly the same thing as a true mirror organism. Also, the starvation model only really works in the context of a closed system with the two organisms in a box fighting over limited resources. In a more open system they'd be microbes just as competitive as the mirror producing the L amino acids we need. We'd eventually hit a balance. Lots of resources could be tied up in a form not easily usable, but there is no reason to believe D chiral proteins would be so much more efficient to bias everything in one direction. Lastly the primary limitation is that we wouldn't be able to directly use the D amino acids of the mirror. The thing is we could make antibodies that could detect the macromolecular structure on the mirror organism and target it for degradation. It may be energy intensive but those nutrients could in theory could be released and required after molecular degradation breaking the chirality. They wouldn't be gone forever.
2025-08-20 22:19:29
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Maeve :
wouldn't radiation effect an mirror-lige bacterium the same way it effects cancer or non-cancerous cells the same way? makes sense as to why we can't register it but why couldn't we treat it with chemotherapy
2025-08-21 14:37:37
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BanzaiGhost :
😬😬😬 anti chiral chemicals are even worse, 😐 I remember in Adv chemistry class when the teacher brought mirrored molecules ....😐 then he went into history for an example and told us the story of Teflon 😬
2025-08-20 11:15:31
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soundsnwaves :
couldn't we make mirror life plagues to kill mirror life
2025-08-20 00:50:02
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Queerberry Muffin :
that's assuming the mirror bacteria lives forever in all conditions
2025-08-19 20:10:35
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perseiddream.png :
just to clarify so it's not, that mirror-life is inherently harmful but life is not it's that the smaller one would probably kill the bigger one correct?
2025-08-20 06:11:54
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thelifeofhoshua :
Sooooo the “anti-spirals” will end all spiral life? Reminds me of a show lol
2025-08-19 22:39:24
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mistermonster715 :
I thought you were talking about the anti-life equation.
2025-08-20 01:00:09
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austinwallace68 :
Wouldn’t the nutrients be wrong it would need opposite chirality amino acids, RNA and DNA for it to work because if it’s truly mirrored it would have L-DNA which means it needs D-RNA and L-proteins but we use D-DNA L-RNA and D-proteins since our food is made of other living things it will only have access to D-DNA L-RNA and D-proteins meaning it would be limited on what it could feed
2025-08-19 20:50:55
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tater_smile :
could you reasonably compare it to prion disease
2025-08-19 20:50:56
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briarprince_7 :
wasn’t this a FF comic storyline?
2025-08-21 10:13:35
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Ace Of Diamonds :
could a being made of anti matter even exist in our reality? how could it move without canceling itself out in a huge explosion?
2025-08-19 19:59:25
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The Jiggler :
In a realistic situation, mirror life would be quickly out competed by normal bacteria because normal bacteria have access to a huge variety of nutrient sources including each other and the biofilms they create, mirror life could gain some footholds in isolated environments though and maybe end up causing the extinction of some other interesting microbes that lived there
2025-08-19 21:31:05
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Tiff :
Wouldn’t it also stand to logic that then we most likely could/would create a mirror toxin that is harmless in our systems but would literally kill all mirrored organisms? That’s the upside, since we can’t interact we don’t have to worry about not killing the helpful things because there are none.
2025-08-20 18:57:26
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Dr. Briefs :
what about a mirrored poison that wouldn't interact with you but would kill the mirror life?
2025-08-22 14:58:21
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Cani :
Anti-life ❌️Antispiral ✅️
2025-08-20 13:01:50
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HungOver^ :
in this comment section: biosciences came out of the woodwork
2025-08-21 09:37:29
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Atari :
it's a pretty interesting topic. stereoisomers are common configurations of many drugs and they do interact directly with our bodies, though usually one isomer interacts much more strongly than the other. chirality is the current best explanation for stereoisomers of various compounds. So let's extrapolate: mirror life may weakly interact with an isomer that we strongly interact with and vise versa but we really don't know
2025-08-20 15:47:28
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