Howdy,

This fine Tuesday on April 2nd Mercyhurst brought Terry Bisson on campus to read some of his short stories for interested students.  Well the first selection he read was called They are Made of Meat.  The story is the classic first encounter tale.  This though turns the tale upside down seeing how extra terestrial's may view seeing humans for the first time.  This was an interesting take for the aliens veiwed that since humans were not even part mechanical and that they were all flesh and bone or also known as "meat."  This baffled them about how we have done so much.  This idea of seeing that the human would be incapable of what we have accomplished because our lack of technology as part of our being is kind of astonishing.  This story shows the ability of humans and how far we have come that we would baffle aliens on our accomplishments.  Even though they chose to ignore us, because this concept would have been hard to explain to their superiors.