The Race to Stop Mirror Organisms
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The Financial Times article discusses the concept of 'mirror organisms' and the supposed race to stop them, but HN commenters express skepticism about the validity and feasibility of this concept.
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It doesn't make sense. It's super expensive to make, perhaps impossible with the current technology. Normal bacterias will out compete them. (Just imagine a mirror Earth, where mirror evil scientist create mirror^2 life. Who wins?) Also the inmune system is very generic to detect any crap, normal or mirrored.