AmidFuror

Don’t forget that if we can’t paint everyone in a group they were born into with a broad brush, we’ll never be able to beat prejudices like racism, sexism, and ableism.

If nobody thought it was possible, why were they trying to do it? If you read the article, this wasn’t an accidental discovery while trying to do something else.

I mean, if you’re going to believe this article based on testimony of the victims you may as well believe the IDF.

I find it hard to believe that those communities don’t allow most new posts. Are you sure it’s not a you thing?

Don’t believe everything you read.

I used to store quarters for the laundromat in empty film canisters.

My favorite is British “lasagna.”

Sorry for your loss.

Gluten bad.

FYI for Georgian nationals, gas generators run on ბენზინი, not გაზის.

Can anyone find independent reports of this massive celebration for the announcement of the results of the Francis Field Trial in 1955?

Edit: Found a Wiki summary

I didn’t for a second read that and think you were the parent.

TIL.

Sounds like Russia deposed Assad. Now do Khamenei.

I remember seeing a standup comedian late 80s or early 90s refer to ghoti as an alternate spelling for fish. Just looked it up, and it dates back to the 19th century.

You take the sound gh makes in laugh, the sound of o in women, and the to from dictionary. F-I-SH.

His father was deposed, thus leading him into having trouble getting his vast wealth out of the country. Definitely no immunity.

Some mirrored compounds are dangerous by coincidence. It’s not that mirrored compounds are inherently dangerous.

Non-mirrored compounds can be incredibly dangerous, often because the organisms that produce them evolved to be dangerous. Take botulinum toxin, for example.

What would make mirrored life dangerous would be if it could escape to the wild and increase its biomass there. Non-living toxins can be deadly, but at least they don’t self-perpetuate. Even prions are limited in how they “reproduce.” They are nothing like the threat of viruses.

Agreed. And while deadly, prions don’t spread except through living organisms. It’s not like they’re converting all the proteins in the world without check.

Prions are comprised of right-handed amino acids. I don’t think it’s the same thing to flip the chirality of a molecule as to flip the chirality of its subcomponents. DNA is usually right-handed, but there are left-handed forms created naturally. They don’t suddenly annihilate their counterparts in antimatter-like collisions.

There are natural pharmaceuticals that consist of both chiralities, and obviously plenty of synthetic ones.

It’s really not that simple. If we want to think about it longer, fine by me. But what is the real threat level?

Edit: As others have pointed out, prions also aren’t an example of a different chirality of the native protein. The issue with prions is they can convert the native protein to their form, which “reproduces” themselves to make the disease progress. Mirrored organisms will propagate the chirality of their components, but their components don’t inherently convert their enantiomers once that organism is dead.

So the biomass of the mirror organisms will not increase in nature?