Yeah, this gets posted regularly. Which is not a bad thing in itself, but the last time wasn't very long ago at all.
Also, if you're going to post it, maybe link to the one posted on the author's website ( https://terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/ ), rather than some other worse site which is reproducing it without permission.
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)
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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)
Yeah, this gets posted regularly. Which is not a bad thing in itself, but the last time wasn't very long ago at all.
Also, if you're going to post it, maybe link to the one posted on the author's website ( https://terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/ ), rather than some other worse site which is reproducing it without permission.
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)
One of my all-time favourites.
The story as a short-film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg
Yes, excellent! I shared a different link, but yours seems to be more authoritative.
They made out of weights https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights
I wonder why it has 'photomaxmix' just sitting at the end of the 11th paragraph?