BTW FWIW mirror viruses wouldn’t be all that harmful to humans, as they cannot replicate or do much of anything else except if they infect mirror cells
(not necessarily—glycerol, glycine and many fats are achiral, so the nutritional value of non-mirror food to mirror heterotrophs wouldn’t be quite zero)
Ah, ok, then I misread it. I thought this part of the story was that it tested all of the above, then chose one, a mirror life mold, to deploy. My mistake.
> It can develop and deploy bacteria, viruses, molds, mirror life of all three types
This is what I say it does.
BTW FWIW mirror viruses wouldn’t be all that harmful to humans, as they cannot replicate or do much of anything else except if they infect mirror cells
And molds are heterotrophic too—mirror molds would starve to death unless they found mirror carbs or mirror proteins to eat, right?
(not necessarily—glycerol, glycine and many fats are achiral, so the nutritional value of non-mirror food to mirror heterotrophs wouldn’t be quite zero)
I think you can add mirror enzymes which can break down mirror carbs. Minimally we are aware of enzymes which break down mirror glucose.
Ah, ok, then I misread it. I thought this part of the story was that it tested all of the above, then chose one, a mirror life mold, to deploy. My mistake.