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Question: Terry Bisson's short story, (Short Stories: They're Made Out of Meat by (Terry Bisson, n.d.), is a conversation between two intelligent beings about their research into the inhabitants of an unnamed planet, likely Earth, in which one of them expresses disbelief at the discovery of the bizarre biology of carbon-based lifeforms "made up of entire meat," a conscious, thinking, loving, and dreaming meat. The story takes place on the planet's or solar system's premises, either in the atmosphere or further inland, as suggested by the abduction of into their recon vessels, and is written from the perspective of two alien beings during their study of "contemporary humans," as implied by the technologies and machines. Since millions of planets are in the Milky Way, finding definitive proof of extraterrestrial life is possible. However, imagining what such beings might look like and be made of is challenging. Moreover, it raises important scientific and philosophical questions about the nature of life and the anthropology of Earth. Hence, there is a high probability that two intelligent aliens would have a racist and superficial conversation about us. Nevertheless, this possibility is compounded by a wide range of factors, including the aliens' and our varying levels of intelligence, personality traits, and intentionality.