• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Why not just bring some with you? Or learn how to synthesize penecilin from bread mold and really change the timeline?

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        9 days ago

        The former would be a limited supply with a shelf life (even modern antibiotics go bad after a few years). The latter— synthesizing penicillin is no easy task. Even if I knew how - which I absolutely do not - it’s among the more difficult things in the world of biochemistry. It’s why Alexander Flemming earned a Nobel prize for it.

        And basic penicillin is nothing compared to the antibiotics we have today.

        Additionally, I’m not really very cool with altering the timeline

        Edit: if I was gonna bother synthesizing anything from bread mold, it would be lysergic acid diethylamide, and then I would go for a nice bicycle ride ;)