Meat Head

How would an alien race describe us?


"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."


Excerpt from a short story by SF writer Terry Bisson. Full Text here
The movie version won the Grand Prize at the Science Fiction Museum's SF Short Film Festival in Seattle in 2006. Watch and enjoy



Almost makes you feel ashamed to be composed entirely of... Meat.