Date:         Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:25:40 -0400
Reply-To:     Gary Stearns <gstearns@SPRINTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Gary Stearns <gstearns@SPRINTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: your mail

Ground Control to Major Tom...I mean Ron.  Did you write that? Did the voice
speak this to you?  What's it like in there?  You can talk to us.  Do you
take these voyages often?

Wow.  Thanks for a little "step outta the box" imagination.
Gary


----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Bloomquist <roadcow@MCN.ORG>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: your mail


> > > TV'S OUT THERE,IF SO LET US GATHER, BREAK,WE CAN SET
> > > UP(DEDICATED,SHIELDED,GALVANIZED,HARD ANODIZED,"YOU NAME IT, I GOT
> IT,OR CAN
> > > GET IT") LINKS WITH EACH OTHER VIA THE TV'S,DESTROY THIS MESSAGE
>
> ---------Snip----------
>
> Since it's Friday..........  Let me clarify the above message.........
>
> -------------------------------
>
> "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."
>
> "I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only
sentient
> race in the sector and they're made out of meat."
>
> "Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence
that
> goes through a meat stage."
>
> "Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of
> their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the
life
> span of meat?"
>
> "Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the
Weddilei.
> A
> meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."
>
> "Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the
Weddilei.
> But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."
>
> "No brain?"
>
> "Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of
> meat!"
>
> "So... what does the thinking?"
>
> "You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The
meat."
>
> "Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
>
> "Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat
is
> the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"
>
> "Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."
>
> "Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to
get
> in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."
>
> "So what does the meat have in mind?"
>
> "First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the
> universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual."
>
> "We're supposed to talk to meat?"
>
> "That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio."
>
> "Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing."
>
> "They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
>
> "Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."
>
> "I thought you just told me they used radio."
>
> "They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how
> when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their
> meat
> at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
>
> "Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you
advise?"
>
> "Officially or unofficially?"
>
> "Both."
>
> "Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all
> sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or
> favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the
whole
> thing."
>
> "I was hoping you would say that."
>
> ---------------------
>
> Have a nice day.
>
> Ron
>