From: djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid   
      
   Gary McGath  writes:   
      
   > On 1/4/26 10:40 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   >> They do the best to keep the reveal hidden: the hairstyles have no   
   >> parts, and the men wear turtlenecks. But they don't have slip-ups,   
   >> because after they filmed the part on "counter-earth" they flopped   
   >> the film. But there are character slips: the main character   
   >> doesn't notice the righthand drive in the car, or the fact that   
   >> his pants zipper is reversed. And although some tests shown the   
   >> organs reversed in his body, they attribute it to errors in the   
   >> equipment; don't they ever put a stethoscope to him and notice his   
   >> heart is on the wrong side?   
   >> There is also the question of whether organic molecules should be   
   >> reversed, and therefore taste and act differently.   
   >   
   > That reminds me of Blish's _Spock Must Die!_ The transporter (if I   
   > remember correctly) generates a mirror-image Spock, down to the   
   > molecules, and he has to eat specially synthesized food because the   
   > molecules of ordinary food aren't compatible with his chemistry.   
   Also in Zelazny's "Doorways in the Sand" the protagonist Fred goes   
   through the alien Rhennius machine and gets inverted so his dextros are   
   levos and vice-versa. Makes things taste strange. More hijinks ensue.   
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   -Don_from_AZ-   
      
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