Summary

One individual tells another individual that the lifeforms they have found are “made out of meat” (1). The second individual is incredulous. The first individual assures them that the lifeforms are indeed made of meat. The second individual remains unbelieving. The first individual reiterates their initial point. With their team, they collected several of these lifeforms “from different parts of the planet, took them aboard [their] recon vessels, and probed them” (1). The probing revealed that the lifeforms were constituted solely of meat.

The second individual does not understand, given that the lifeforms communicated with them via “radio signals” and interstellar messaging (1).

The second individual explains that although the lifeforms do use “radio waves to talk,” the talking originates “from machines” and not from them (1).

The second individual wants to know who made the machines so they can contact them. The first individual assures the...