From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Aug 20 1999 - 17:52:53 MDT
At 04:32 PM 20/08/99 +0000, I cited:
>The author suggests that
>one consequence of this hypothesis is that if carbon-based life
>exists on extrasolar planets, a biochemistry based on D- amino
>acids could well be the rule.
I should have added that presumably the author *didn't* say this, but
actually deduced that L- and D- forms would be equally likely (the point
made in those old sf stories). If I've somehow missed the point here, my bad.
Damien Broderick
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