humans from earth manage to reach the galaxy in which the events of Star Wars takes place. It’s soon discovered that earthlings have an immensely strong connection with the force. Because what they call midichlorians, we call mitochondria.
Who knew the key to choking someone with your mind began with creating a proton gradient by oxidizing all the metabolic byproducts of glycolysis, β-oxidation, and the citric acid cycle?
It’s even more horrifying when you realize that pretty much all nucleated, eukaryotic cells have mitochondria. Humans, cockroaches, the orchid sitting on my desk that refuses to die no matter how little I water it, the yeast that helped make the beer I’m drinking…
Holy shit, the force is in my beer.
Also, I may be drunk.