“They’re Made out of Meat”

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 @ 12:02 AM

Here's a short story I found on WenHao's blog. I find the story pretty cute and interesting as well :) And I wanted to share it with you people :X So here is it,

They’re Made out of Meat
by Terry Bisson

“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.”

“I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that 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 long. Do you have any idea what’s 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’s a brain all right. It’s just that the brain is made out of meat! That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you.”

“So … what does the thinking?”

“You’re not understanding, are you? You’re refusing to deal with what I’m telling 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 beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?”

“Omigod. You’re serious then. They’re made out of meat.”

“Thank you. Finally. Yes. They are indeed made out of meat. And they’ve been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years.”

“Omigod. So what does this meat have in mind?”

“First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the Universe, contact other sentiences, 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. Anybody 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 this quadrant of the Universe, 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.”

“It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?”

“I agree one hundred percent. What’s there to say? ‘Hello, meat. How’s it going?’ But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?”

“Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can’t live on them. And being meat, they can only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact.”

“So we just pretend there’s no one home in the Universe.”

“That’s it.”

“Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you probed? You’re sure they won’t remember?”

“They’ll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we’re just a dream to them.”

“A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat’s dream.”

“And we marked the entire sector unoccupied.”

“Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?”

“Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago, wants to be friendly again.”

“They always come around.”

“And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone …”

The end

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Be Water, My Friend...

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 @ 3:28 AM

This is what it is, okay?
I said Empty your mind.
Be formless, shapeless, like water.
Now you put water into a cup - it becomes the cup.
You put water into a bottle - it becomes the bottle.
You put it into a teapot - it becomes the teapot.
Now water can flow or it can crash.
Be water, my friend :)

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VGL Intro Videos

Friday, July 03, 2009 @ 12:40 AM

Related post: ::Video Games Live::

These videos were played before the start of the VGL concert :)



Lyrics:
Like a persocom I'm teaching you
Like Pokemon I pikachu
Like Mario and Peach I'm never reaching you
Like Gundman Seed you're my Destiny
Like Ed I Lust for your alchemy
I get a lightning kick from you just like Chun-Li
For Yuna and Zelda and Chi I'd do anything
For Yui I'd do anything
Yuri the only one for me
Try so hard to make you see
Yuri the only one for me
Priceless like a PS3
Yuri the only one for me
You and I make Nintendo Wii
Well together be
WoW level 70
Let's pwn some n00bs goin' PvP
Let's limit break Final Fantasy
Won't tri-to-force you Twilight Princess can't you see?
You're my angel out of Tokyo-3
Cel-shaded face in an AMV
Just like Ranma you're the better half of me
For Yuna and Zelda and Chi I'd do anything
For Yui I'd do anything
Yuri the only one for me
Try so hard to make you see
Yuri the only one for me
Priceless like a PS3
Yuri the only one for me
You and I make Nintendo Wii
Well together be
Sephy's mom has got it goin' on
Sephy's mom has got it goin' on
Sephy's mom has got it goin' on
On and on and on
Sephy's mom has got it goin' on
Sephy's mom has got it goin' on
Sephy's mom has got it goin' on
On and on and on
Yuri the only one for me
Try so hard to make you see
Yuri the only one for me
Priceless like a PS3
Yuri the only one for me
You and I make Nintendo Wii
Will together be
Yuri the only one for me
Try so hard to make you see
Yuri the only one for me
Priceless like a PS3
Yuri the only one for me
You and I make Nintendo Wii
Will together be
Wow level 70

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Vocaloids: Kagamine Rin's I Like You, I Love You

Tuesday, May 05, 2009 @ 11:25 PM

Another Vocaloid's video to share~ This one is super~~ SWEET! :D

♥I Like You, I Love You 【す..す..すき大すき】♥
by Kagamine Rin



Romanji lyrics :
ne ne ne nee, ne, chotto ii
isogashii nara, gomen
sukoshi dake, ne sukoshi de ii
oshaberi ni tsukiatte

dou shiyou ka nani shiyou ka
etto geemu demo suru
shiritori shi yo
shiri to 'ri' ' ri' n.
gomen ne, tsuduka nai ne

onaka suka nai nani ka tabe tai
e eto, atashi mizu de ii ya

kimi monita kara me o hanashi ta
suki ni hisshi ni shimyureeto
sorenanoni baka mitsume rare tara
nodo ga kawai te koe de nai

puha dou shiyou
ano ne, jitsuha ru
dame da, yappari kowai no

kimochi tsutae ta iyo anata ni
kono kimochi doushite kurushii no

ne ne ne nee, ne, chotto ii
isogashii nara, gomen
sukoshi dake, ne sukoshi de ii
oshaberi ni tsukiatte

dou shiyo uka nani shiyo uka
etto sore ja ja janken shiyo
jankenpon aiko desho
gomen ne, tsumaranai ne

onaka suka nai nani ka tabe tai
e eto, atashi mizu de ii ya

ano ne, tokorode, toutotsu da kedo
okashii tte omottara gomen
bikkuri suru kamo shire nai no
demo ne, kii te hoshii, e eto

puha dou shiyou
ano ne, jitsuhare
dame da, yappari kowai no

kimochi tsutae ta iyo anata ni
kono kimochi doushi te kurushii no

ano ne, jitsuha,
a ta atashi, ata, atashi, ano, ano
ano ne, anata ga, aa,

atashi, gomen, matte a ta atashi
a ta, atashi, ano, ano ne,
anata ga, su

ano ne, jitsuha no sono, atashi, ata
atashi, ano, ano, ano ne,

anata ga, aa
atashi, gomen, matte, ano ano ne

e eto, atashi
anata no koto ga

ano ne atashi anata no koto
ano ne atashi anata no koto
atashi wa anata ga

su, su, susu, susu, su su
susu susu, su, su, su, su,
suu, waa gomen, wasure te

matte!

su, su, susu, susu susu
susu susu, su su su su
su, su, susu, susu, su su

suki, daisuki!!!!


English lyrics:
He-he-he-hey, hey, could you wait a minute?
If you're busy, sorry
Just a little, hey, a little while
I want to talk with you

What should I do? What should we do?
Um.. What game should we play?
Shiritori?
Shirito-"ri".. "Ri"-n
I'm sorry, I'm not very good at this

Are you hungry? Want something to eat?
Umm... I..... I don't have water

Take your eyes off the monitor
I have to simulate distance
And yet I watch that idiot
My throat is dry and I can't speak

Sigh... What to do
I'm being honest, you see....
No good, it's as scary as ever

I want to convey my feelings
Why is it so hard?

He-he-he-hey, hey, could you wait a minute?
If you're busy, sorry
Just a little, hey, a little while
I want to talk with you

What can I do? What's the point
Um.. ro-ro-rock, paper, scissors!
Rock, paper, scissors, iced coffee, I think**
I'm sorry, I'm pretty boring

Are you hungry? Want something to eat?
Umm... I..... I don't have water

See, even if it's sudden
It's kind of a weird feeling, sorry
Maybe it's surprising
But, I wanted to hear, err...

Sigh... What to do
I'm being honest, you see....
No good, it's as scary as ever

I want to convey my feelings
Why is it so hard?

I'm being honest, you see....
I-I, I, I, I, I
Hey, you are, um...

I, sorry, wait.. I-I...
I, I, um.. hey..
You're the one that I li...

Hey, honestly %*#, I, um
I, um, um, hey..
You're... um...
I, sorry, wait, he-hey

Umm, I....
You're the one that...!

Hey, I, you're the one that I..
Hey, I, you're the one that I..
I, to you...

Li, li, li-li, li-li, li... li
Li-li-li-li, li, li, li,li
Lii, sigh.. Sorry, I forgot

.... Wait!

Li, li, li-li, li-li-li-li
Li-li-li-li, li.. li.. li.. li
Li, li, li-li, li-li, li.. li

I like you, I love you!

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Vocaloids: Len's and Rin's Kokoro Kiseki 【心奇跡】

Sunday, May 03, 2009 @ 2:00 AM

Something that I would like to share. These songs are actually made by a programme called Vocaloid, thus not sang by people. And these are the two songs that touched my heart deep deep. I even cried after the Rin's version.

Len's Kokoro Kiseki



Lyrics
The first miracle was that you could ever be born
The second miracle was that you ever could be with me

She was a robot made by a lonely scientist
At first he called her wonderful
"miracle.."
Though something cannot be made
That one missing part
That piece is called a heart.
Programming...

"I want to have her know"
"what emotion feels like"
The miracle scientist
Only hoped
So much failed ideas
Piling on as time went on
Only a voice
Kept singing without a
HEART OR MIND

"As you see me smile in your eyes"
"What is it that you think of?"
He is only a human he won't last forever
She cannot understand, no, not yet

"Why is it that you are crying?"

WONDERFUL THIS HEART THIS HEART WONDERFUL
What is that he meant by being happy?
WONDERFUL THIS HEART THIS HEART WONDERFUL
What is that he meant by being sad?
WONDERFUL THIS HEART THIS HEART FOREVER
It's something that I can't imagine!

The first miracle was that you could ever be born
The second miracle was that you ever could be with me
The third miracle was, well there's no third miracle yet

MESSAGE
INCOMING
SENDER IS
THE FUTURE

From a few hundred years ahead
Came this one message
The song of an angel afar
Using a heart to sing truly

The first miracle was that you could ever be born
The second miracle was that you ever could be with me
The third miracle was that you sang from the dephs of your heart
The fourth miracle was.. I don't need anything else

Thank you
Thank you

Rin's Kokoro Kiseki



Lyrics
A robot was built by a lonely scientist,
When his work was done, it was known as a “miracle”

But something was missing, there was one thing he couldn’t do,
and that was the program called a “heart”

Many years passed,
and the miracle robot that had been left all alone,
made a single wish:

Give me the “heart”, that that person,
The person I’ve always wanted to know,
made for me, until the very end of his life.

Now that that miracle has started to occur,
Why, why won’t my tears stop flowing….?
Why am I shaking? What are these beats inside me?
Is this the “heart” that I wished for?

Mysterious heart, mysterious feelings,
All the joys I had come to know,
Mysterious heart, mysterious feelings,
All the depressing things I had come to know,
Mysterious heart, mysterious feelings,
They all seem so deeply painful…

Now I’m beginning to understand the reason I was born,
Being alone must truly be depressing,
Yes, on that day, at that time,
All the feelings that had dwelled in my memories flowed out of my heart.

But now, I can say these words for real,
to you, my creator, who dedicated his life to me,

Thank you… for bringing me into this world.
Thank you… for the days you spent with me.
Thank you… for everything you’ve given me
Thank you… I will sing for eternity.

Romanji
Kodoku na kagakusha ni tsukurareta robotto
dekibae o iu nara “kiseki”

dakedo mada tarinai hitotsu dake dekinai
sore wa “kokoro” to iu puroguramu

ikuhyaku toshi ga sugi
hitori de nokosareta
kiseki no robotto wa negau

shiritai ano hito ga
inochi no owari made
watashi ni tsukutteta
“kokoro”

ima ugoki hajimeta kasoku suru kiseki
nazeka namida ga tomaranai…
naze watashi furueru? kasoku suru kodou
kore ga watashi no nozonda “kokoro”?

fushigi kokoro kokoro fushigi
watashi wa shitta yorokobu koto o
fushigi kokoro kokoro fushigi
watashi wa shitta kanashii koto o
fushigi kokoro kokoro fushigi
nande fukaku setsunai…?

ima kidzuki hajimeta umareta riyuu o
kitto hitori wa sabishii
sou, ano hi, ano toki
subete no kioku ni yadoru “kokoro” ga afuredasu

ima ieru hontou no kotoba
sasageru anata ni

arigatou… kono yo ni watashi o unde kurete
arigatou… isshoni sugoseta hibi o
arigatou… anata ga watashi ni kureta subete
arigatou… eien ni uta

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DN DS-chan!

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 @ 11:28 PM

This! XD DN Canvas Cover for DS!

Tata!~ On DS-chan!~~ DN DS! LOL!

Lastly, try this out!!! Apollo Justice~ Gyakusai 4!
(Johnatton intro this to me XD)
Btw, it's just a mock trial... =)
So, download when the game is out!!! =D

YA LAH! THE DS BIGGER THAN MY FRAME! BEAR WITH IT! :@

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