Hope no one is offended.... part 2

February 1, 2001

" 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 marked 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

cl*** nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two

galactic rotation 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. " --------------------------------\

------------ Dialogue written by Terry Bisson Chris. (If

this does offend any one please remove, I hope people

see the funny side.)

February 1, 2001

I think it's hysterical....... Thanks Chris gotta be able to laugh

at yourself

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