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We aren't gonna make it, are we?

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/31/mirror-life-scientists-push-for-ban/85866520007/
 

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At her synthetic biology lab, Adamala had been taking preliminary steps toward creating a living cell from scratch with one key twist: All the organism's building blocks would be flipped. Changing these molecules would create an unnatural mirror image of a cell, as different as your right hand from your left.

 

"They started to ask questions like, 'Have you considered what happens if that cell gets released or what would happen if it infected a human?'" said Adamala, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota. 

So researchers brought together dozens of experts in a variety of disciplines from around the globe, including two Nobel laureates, who worked for months to determine the risks of creating "mirror life" and the chances those dangers could be mitigated. Ultimately, they concluded, mirror cells could inflict "unprecedented and irreversible harm" on our world.

 

 

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41 minutes ago, Parliament said:

All the organism's building blocks would be flipped. Changing these molecules would create an unnatural mirror image of a cell, as different as your right hand from your left.

 

What does this mean?  Some kind of chiralty?

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1 hour ago, Deej said:

So, if a mirror cell Steve Sarkisian was created, would we be unstoppable on the goal line?

Yes. But… we would always kick the easy FG instead of going for it.

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5 hours ago, WBT said:

What does this mean?  Some kind of chiralty?

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Yes, chirality, I assume.  And I assume the scientists involved understand how their research could lead to prion like diseases.

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6 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

I’m still planning on the Yellowstone volcano. 

yep, vaporize me at the start. cannibalism sucks, for both sides!

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12 minutes ago, mchookem said:

yep, vaporize me at the start. cannibalism sucks, for both sides!

Nothing a few HEB tortillas can't fix, and we all know you raided HEB on your last swing through TX. 

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