A group of scientists warns against creating mirror cells. This sentence is somehow not sci-fi: “Drug developers might be able to create mirror antibiotics, but the treatments might not be ready to use until a mirror pandemic was out of control.”
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Strong ”Don’t Create the Torment Nexus” vibe.
From a different article I read on this: "Unchecked replication of mirror bacteria within internal tissues is likely to be deleterious"
Ya think?!
This is the news headline shown in the first scene of the next pandemic thriller movie. It's running on the morning TV show, as Tom Cruise leaves his house or walks through the airport.
It sounds like an evolutionary trap laid by the Great Filter.
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