It’s called hard sci-fi because it’s not as easy
I thought it’d be fun if I made aliens that respirate CO² into O² like plants but I started thinking about how I’m not actually sure how exactly those chemical processes work and now I’m on the wikipedia page for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
I feel like the media literacy ogre for biochemistry
while you’re on the topic of ogres can you figure out how the respiratory biology of ogres in the Shrek universe works because they are inhaling normal air and blowing up balloon animals with either hydrogen or helium and that is concerning