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by drdeca 2441 days ago
I thought life on earth favoring a particular chirality was supposed to be primarily because of like common ancestors and stuff. If you flipped the chiralities of everything, would stuff no longer work? Or, I guess really my question is, would it be nearly impossible for life on another planet to use the opposite chirality instead?
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The test is not for right chirality, it's for any preferred chirality. Non-life is half and half at random.
Ah, cool, thanks