Yeah, there's a lot of potentially cool stuff there, but also the potential for idk superbug creation, or just people screwing up and accidentally creating something harmful. Even the plastic-eating bacteria could be disastrous if they eg got into a hospital and started eating up all the plastic hygiene stuff. Oh, sure, there's plenty of ways for it to go terribly wrong. Entertaining in fiction, horrifying in real life, as per usual. (Cough, nuclear power, cough.) But I do like the idea of hospitals eventually being able to formulate their own medicine on demand instead of large pharmaceutical companies having evergreen monopolies.
Maybe Space Dixing or the Yashou Nebula could have them? :3 I have no idea what's going on with the Yashou Nebula and will not be looking until September 13th (or possibly Writing Rainbow if Red is the color, for Redshift), but Dixing's sunlight is too weak. But! It would be a fun story to write, even if it ends up being a different AU. Maybe a flower Yashou gets fed up with the Haixing/Dixing drama and decides to solve it with fungi?...
I agree! It's fertile ground to play in. Emmi Itäranta's Memory of Water did sort of deal with this a bit, but there's still room there. Thank you for the rec!
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Date: 2019-08-23 16:12 (UTC)Oh, sure, there's plenty of ways for it to go terribly wrong. Entertaining in fiction, horrifying in real life, as per usual. (Cough, nuclear power, cough.) But I do like the idea of hospitals eventually being able to formulate their own medicine on demand instead of large pharmaceutical companies having evergreen monopolies.
Maybe Space Dixing or the Yashou Nebula could have them? :3
I have no idea what's going on with the Yashou Nebula and will not be looking until September 13th (or possibly Writing Rainbow if Red is the color, for Redshift), but Dixing's sunlight is too weak. But! It would be a fun story to write, even if it ends up being a different AU. Maybe a flower Yashou gets fed up with the Haixing/Dixing drama and decides to solve it with fungi?...
I agree! It's fertile ground to play in. Emmi Itäranta's Memory of Water did sort of deal with this a bit, but there's still room there.
Thank you for the rec!