[losfreddy]

So, by now we all heard about Stephenville, where over 200 people saw a UFO and was caught on tape by some guy. In case you guys don't remeber, I reported seeing a flying saucer in my Home town of Katy and have surfaced other reports in and around Katy recently. My sighting was soon followed by Military Choppers. The sightings in my area seem to be around the northern backroads of Katy from Fry, to Cypress to Patterson and Brookshire. A Friend of mine living in Brookshire keeps telling me about Military Choppers flying in the area so often. A friend living in Katy also says that hes seen military choppers every so often. I strongly believe, after my sighting, that something is going on between the military and UFOs. Keep Looking up. Thank you.

[sparkchaser]

Ummm....OK

[KMcNaught]

[jneal]

Originally Posted by losfreddy

I strongly believe, after my sighting, that something is going on between the military and UFOs. Keep Looking up. Thank you.

gee, ya think? testing new secret designs?

Oh let me guess... ' it didnt look like any aircraft I've ever seen...'
because you have seen every super secret aircraft/mode of propulsion, ever designed.

[shunt]

I've never heard of any of this..... Best of luck with the ufo thingee...

[Hoobly_Goob]

While I personally believe that the probility of life beyond earth is pretty good, I'm certain that no extraterrestrial creatures have visited earth

[jneal]

did it look like this?

[Hoobly_Goob]

Are those...
DALEKS?!

RUN AWAY RUN AWAY!

[War Eagle]

I love the idea of aliens, just like I love the idea of ghosts. But anyone who claims to have seen either of them is, in my opinion, a complete fruit bar.




"They're made out of meat."


"Meat?"


"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."


"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 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 have 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 can mark this 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."

[plk457]

^^^^^^

[sparkchaser]

Where did you get that from War Eagle?

[jneal]

some how I picture Douglas Adams mullling this scene over in his head before deciding to bulldoze the earth for a galactic highway.

LOLOLOL

[War Eagle]

Originally Posted by sparkchaser

Where did you get that from War Eagle?

It's a (very) short story by Terry Bisson.

[ionakana]

they're made out of meat

[Hoobly_Goob]

"Help help I'm being repressed" by aliens!