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They're Made Out of Meat

https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TheyMade.shtml

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bstsb•32m ago

alternate link, as it seems the site is unresponsive:

https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688678 (2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420111 (2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737993 (2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152131 (2014)

p2detar•30m ago

One of my all-time favourites.

The story as a short-film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg

jtxt•13m ago

Yes, excellent! I shared a different link, but yours seems to be more authoritative.

tomhow•29m ago

They're made out of meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688678 - April 2026 (181 comments)

They're Made Out of Meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43994603 - May 2025 (3 comments)

They're Made out of Meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43883866 - May 2025 (1 comment)

They're Made Out of Meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40152901 - April 2024 (1 comment)

They're Made Out of Meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420111 - Nov 2023 (168 comments)

They're Made Out of Meat (2005) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35848313 - May 2023 (5 comments)

They're made out of meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31965062 - July 2022 (151 comments)

They're Made Out of Meat [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30477257 - Feb 2022 (2 comments)

They're Made Out of Meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737993 - Oct 2020 (292 comments)

They're Made Out of Meat [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436550 - June 2020 (4 comments)

They're Made Out of Meat (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22836278 - April 2020 (1 comment)

They're Made Out of Meat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108726 - Jan 2020 (1 comment)

They're Made Out of Meat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561522 - April 2016 (3 comments)

They're made out of meat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8910420 - Jan 2015 (1 comment)

They're Made out of Meat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152131 - Aug 2014 (170 comments)

They're made out of meat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8098264 - July 2014 (1 comment)

"They're Made out of Meat?" Short first contact sci-fi story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3549320 - Feb 2012 (62 comments)

They're made out of Meat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=774139 - Aug 2009 (3 comments)

jtxt•9m ago

They made out of weights https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights

PlunderBunny•2m ago

I wonder why it has 'photomaxmix' just sitting at the end of the 11th paragraph?