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Sentient meat? You must be joking.

 
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veritasnoctis



Joined: 23 Aug 2007
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Location: Bellevue, NE

PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:01 am    Post subject: Sentient meat? You must be joking. Reply with quote

Here's an amusing but also subtly philosophical science fiction short story:

"They're Made Out of Meat" by Terry Bisson
http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html

Excerpt:

Quote:
"They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and 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."

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khaos01



Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 11

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:50 am    Post subject: sentient meat Reply with quote

I thought you were talking about the last episode of Torchood that I watched. Those two little words told the whole story of the episode..sentient meat...

If your intersted you should watch...if you're not...you're not going to regret the time you wasted watching it.. Smile
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