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To a certain kind of alien, "thick crust of carbon-rich gunk" could describe Earth as well.
by notacoward 9y ago
To a certain kind of alien, "thick crust of carbon-rich gunk" could describe Earth as well.
- RepressedEmu 9y agoMaybe the aliens ARE the "carbon-rich gunk"?
- hinkley 9y agoYou’re carbon-rich gunk.
- gebeeson 9y agoA co-worker of mine, upon reading this, opined that my face was carbon-rich gunk. He's not wrong.
- Joeri 9y agoOr maybe it is its skin, and we’re looking at the equivalent of a dead beached whale. One might imagine the funeral rite of interplanetary life forms would be to send their deceased on a deep space trajectory.
- danidiaz 9y agoReminds me of Terry Bisson's "They're made out of meat" http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html