They're Made out of Meat
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They're Made out of Meat
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#2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ
The short-film adaptation of this was very well done. The David Lynch-influenced directing style worked well.
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#3http://thetruthpodcast.com/Story/Entries/2012/3/20_Theyre_Ma...
An excellent podcast/radio adaptation, along with an interview with Terry Bisson
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#4Maybe they should talk to the "psychopathically righteous" GCU Grey Area - which apparently takes quite an interest in meat beings.
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#5It might look like they're conscious but in fact it's only their actions that closely resemble those of conscious beings. The actions are obviously fully automatic because how could meat be conscious?
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#6One of my favorite stories ever. That, and The Last Question.
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#7Could any life travel faster than the speed of light? (Including digital life.)
Do we know much about dark matter yet? Could it travel faster than light, or is it bound by the same rules as normal matter?
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#8One of my favorite stories ever. That, and The Last Question.
The Last Question was really nice. What a twist at the end.
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#9https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ The short-film adaptation of this was very well done. The David Lynch-influenced directing style worked well.
To me, it doesn't work at all. The whole point is that they are not-meat talking about meat. In the sketch, they look very meaty indeed, and their speech sounds like flapping meat, so that it does not work at all.
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#10Could any life travel faster than the speed of light? (Including digital life.) Do we know much about dark matter yet? Could it travel faster than light, or is it bound by the same rules as normal matter?
Barring significant new physics, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. And that's really a very probably no - although you see popular science stuff written like it can solve the problem, it doesn't, and we have no real expectation that anything will.
Dark matter, if it is matter (and there are good but not totally confirmed reasons to think it is) is just that...matter. It would really be not that special at all, except that it doesn't interact electromagnetically, but this doesn't particularly have deep implications - we already know about particles like that, neutrinos, but they happen to be lighter than the ones that would make up dark matter.