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by notfed 549 days ago
> What's scary about mirrored DNA

Exponential growth of a self-replicating cell with zero predators.

> Mirrored amino acids already exist in some organisms.

You can have an entire planet full of mirror amino acids if you want; that's not the hard part. The hard part is evolving the entire set of mirror transcription proteins.

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Where are you getting exponential growth without predators? That simply does not follow logically from any assumptions.