From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <87zf6s3uaa.fsf@comcast.net.invalid>,   
   Don_from_AZ   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   In one of George O. Smith's _Venus Equilateral_ stories they   
   develop a "transporter" that reverses optical isomers.  They   
   solve the issue by using two legs of transport to get to the   
   destination without causing problems.   
      
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