In one discussion, Musk referenced Terry Bisson’s radio play They’re Made Out of Meat, about a pair of computer-based aliens, made out of bits and bytes, who have just visited Earth. “These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they’re made out of meat,” says one alien to the other, astonished that our viscera held together by muscles and encased by epidermis could makse a machine. Musk, when he was in his charming prankster mode, as he used to be more often, began to call our lips “meat flaps” and our throat a “meat tube.” His salient point was that we needed to adapt for the
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