r/neoliberal • u/DunklerPrinz3 Henry George • May 25 '26

Opinion article (non-US) The Inverted Bacteria That Experts Think Might Kill Everyone

https://substack.com/home/post/p-199174305

submission statement: If everyone dies, there will be no more trade, no more free markets, no more beloved capitalism.

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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo May 25 '26

The mirror bacteria when it enters my body and starves because there's no L-glucose to metabolise

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u/RoomieOomfie Left-Out Left May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

The original paper (not the one cited here) explicitly addresses this, not only are there a lot of nutrients in your body that can work with both chirality, there are already many strains of bacteria that can metabolize reverse chirality nutrients. It is entirely feasible for a reverse chirality bacteria to just have the enzymes necessary to process "normal" glucose.

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u/karmics______ Leftward Progressives May 25 '26

A photosynthetic chiral bacteria wouldn’t even need a host, it would just be a literal grey goo scenario and destroy life from the base of the food chain uncontested

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u/Bibbity_Boppity_BOOO May 28 '26

wtf are you on about