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makuranososhi
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 Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:04 pm Post subject: They're made out of meat. |
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They're made out of meat.
Excerpt:
| Terry Bisson wrote: | "They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"Meat. They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."
"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars."
"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."
"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."
"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."
"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat." |
...one of my favourite short stories.
M.
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anna-banana
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| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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hah! I just read that in Steven Pinker's "How The Mind Works"!
it really is a great story.
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wigglyspider
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:41 am Post subject: |
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lollll, I remember that story. It seems kind of dumb though, when you think about it. I mean, meat is a really good thing to be made out of. What are the non-meat people made out of? And anyway, we don't think with our meat. D:
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DeaconBlues
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:10 am Post subject: |
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Rather a nicer take on the Reapers in Mass Effect...
| Quote: | | SOVEREIGN: Organic life is a mutation. You exist because we permit it. And you will end because we demand it. |
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