Jackalope wrote...
I tend to chill out and suspend disbelief on science in movies (unless it's DNA-related, because that's my job we're talking about)...
For Mass Effect, I see it like this: I'm sure turians can eat 98% of our food. BUT maybe a small precentage kills you. And the only way to find out is to sample the food. Furthermore, there's a good chance that since your receptors are different, it wouldn't even taste the same. Or you're stuck in the bathroom with the runs. Would you eat the alien food? Or stick to your mama's home cooking?
Hehe, I so know what you mean by "chill out and suspend disbelief." I'm an astronomer. I
really have to work at it with most sci-fi.
On topic of chirality and allergies, I'm still not quite satisfied. I'll try to make a clear case:
What you said is pretty much common sense. You don't go into the woods, pick strange mushrooms and eat them. A poisonous mushroom, like a drug with the wrong chirality, will affect everybody the same way.
That's not what allergy is, right? When tasting a strange mushroom, or alien food, or, um, alien bodily fluids, you shouldn't be concerned if you'll be allergic - you should be concerned if you'll be poisoned. There's a difference between an allergic reaction and a toxic reaction.
I find if very unlikely that some aliens could have excretions that are toxic to humans, and that this wouldn't be widely known. Think of Thane. Drell are not at all as common in Citadel space as are turians, and still the effects of their... excretions... are very well known. Garrus and Shepard can't be the first mixed couple ever; if there were issues of toxicity, it would be public knowledge.
How likely is it that some alien excretion could cause an allergic reaction, especially as severe as anaphylactic shock (!) and that it's not a widely known danger? Well, we can only guess. My guess is,
it's so unlikely that Mordin must have been joking about it.
Eradyn wrote...
BW did a great disservice to their fans and the Mass Effect universe with their emphasis on the manufactured dextro-levo incompatibility issue. I see this misunderstanding all over fanfiction (to often irritating and story-ruining results) and on various forums and boards. And it keeps getting recirculated. It's really difficult to stem the tide of misinformation when BW itself is eager to spread it. =/ I really hope this is rectified in ME3.
Yeah, that's exactly how I feel about it.
Exolyps wrote...
Could you go go into a bit more details? As by reading your post I get the impression that you mean I could have missundertsood the dextro-levo issue. (Which I hope I have). But if I have, what is the correct information regarding it?
I'd love to hear.
I know this wasn't directed at me, but there are links in Jackalope's post and in mine a bit back, explaining "real world" chirality issues, if you can call them that. I think we're in general agreement here that these issues are depicted as overly dramatic and unrealistic, in ME universe. And then fanfiction took them to a whole new level of disturbing.
What is your understanding of the issue?
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