They're Made Out of Meat

terrybisson.com ^ | 1990 | Terry Bisson

[Talisker]

[jessduntno]

Well, until we meat again...thanks...I think.

[BermanPost]

Nice post; funny stuff.

[YankeeMagic]

I never had read that.. lol. great stuff

[Congressman Billybob]

Thomas Paine made a statement that bears on this subject. Yes, THAT Thomas Paine. He wrote, "When we meet a race from beyond the Earth, our common language will be mathematics."

Think of that. An 18th century man, writing with quill pens by candle light, understanding something that Dr. Carl Sagan popularized with the plaques on the two Voyager craft that will explain us to anyone who finds those craft who we are and where we are, using math.

Congressman Billybob

Don't Tread On Me (9/12 photo and poster"

""I Was in the First Wave'"

[Vaquero]

[mountainlion]

Two 5’s and no 8 or 7, Illogical, do it over.

[jessduntno]

heh heh.

[brytlea]

Hysterical! And something I have long thought. We assume other races from other planets would be very similar to us. I really doubt they would be. Of course, I also doubt they would wish us well either.

[MHGinTN]

As one meat mass to another, thank you for printing the correct version of this cogent short.

[FlyingEagle]

So here is the videoclip:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/177153/theyre_made_out_of_meat/

you have to wait for the ad to finish or click past it

[null and void]

Especially given that sperm whale oil is still the finest lubricant for precision machinery.

I wonder how good baby oil is....

[Vigilantcitizen]

Math doesn’t lie, people do.

I use that phrase constantly in construction in response to my superiors.

[MHGinTN]

If you read your Bible —and I’m certain you do based upon past posts you’ve made— you will note that extraterrestrials are not uncommon in the Bible. What are Angels but extraterrestrials. A being no longer connected to their decaying body is an extraterrestrial. When Jesus left the rock tomb without rolling back the stone first or showed up in the locked upper room from some where/when, He was illustrating that their is Universe we have not a clue regarding ... yet.

[Radix]

I have not read any Sci-Fi in a very long time.

That was amusing.

Thanks for sharing.

[PLMerite]

That’s one of my favorite short stories. He also did some snippets called “Partial People” that’s just begging to be made into a really weird movie.

[GeronL]

I have read that before. I still like it.

[MHGinTN]

Cash Cab goes galactic ... to sit with a creepy serial killer (from Man HUnter fame).

[ItsForTheChildren]

They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."

LOL! Well, I never called it "singing."

[goat granny]

I remember a Star Trek that the aliens called humans, ugly bags of water....