Ironically it doesn’t matter what the form looks like, there’s a 50/50 shot everytime life develops if it’s right (us) of left (not us) biochemistry.
It literally doesn’t matter which happens, functionally the life could be 100% same except a mirror image.
Anytime two actually separate lines of life encounter each other, there’s a fight on the bacterial level of the ecosystem, and the “new” one will win 100% of the time due to stuff that would make this comment too long to read.
Left hand bacteria would have no predators, especially including viruses unless they brought their own. They’d outcompete natural bacteria, and crash the entire food chain wiping out all life. It wouldn’t be anything that right handed biology could learn to fight.
Like, it would be lovectafttian horror and with zero evolutionary pressure it would involve insanely fast not that it would matter.
But for European settlers, most of the Indengious North Americans (especially on the east coast) has already been wiped out by European disease brought over earlier by vikings.
Vikings gave up, but then disease won anyways.
Then some slightly less northern Europeans showed up and just assumed the land was empty.
If Vikings had kept up more of a presence they’d have noticed and been able to return and easily fed off what “middle” Europe was willing to send. Ironically enough the Vikings had tried and pivoted to conquering those countries over North America.
Think of it kind of like small pox blankets. A violent anomaly introduced to an environment that can’t defend against it. I’d imagine that’s the kind of thing OP is talking about, but I may have misinterpreted their comment.
Ironically it doesn’t matter what the form looks like, there’s a 50/50 shot everytime life develops if it’s right (us) of left (not us) biochemistry.
It literally doesn’t matter which happens, functionally the life could be 100% same except a mirror image.
Anytime two actually separate lines of life encounter each other, there’s a fight on the bacterial level of the ecosystem, and the “new” one will win 100% of the time due to stuff that would make this comment too long to read.
So, just like when europeans got in to Americas and brought new illnesses that Americans didn’t had any immunity to
(In fact, many kills were made by ilnesses than by europeans)
Wrong on both counts actually…
Left hand bacteria would have no predators, especially including viruses unless they brought their own. They’d outcompete natural bacteria, and crash the entire food chain wiping out all life. It wouldn’t be anything that right handed biology could learn to fight.
Like, it would be lovectafttian horror and with zero evolutionary pressure it would involve insanely fast not that it would matter.
But for European settlers, most of the Indengious North Americans (especially on the east coast) has already been wiped out by European disease brought over earlier by vikings.
Vikings gave up, but then disease won anyways.
Then some slightly less northern Europeans showed up and just assumed the land was empty.
If Vikings had kept up more of a presence they’d have noticed and been able to return and easily fed off what “middle” Europe was willing to send. Ironically enough the Vikings had tried and pivoted to conquering those countries over North America.
It’s not too long to read. I dare you.
Think of it kind of like small pox blankets. A violent anomaly introduced to an environment that can’t defend against it. I’d imagine that’s the kind of thing OP is talking about, but I may have misinterpreted their comment.
I’m gonna need a little more than that.