Encounters Out There

A gigantic spaceship entered the solar system and orbited Earth:

“Hello, Earthlings! We’ve come from afar!”

“How do you know English?” asked One-Earth Space Command.

“We’ve analyzed your broadcasts …”

An alien ambassador sat down with a delegation of Earth scientists to answer questions:

“How did you survive the journey?” asked a cosmologist.

“We harvested building and fueling resources from asteroids, planets, and comets.”

“But how did you eat and drink?” asked an exobiologist. “Surely you needed sustenance.”

“Well …” The ambassador peeled a synthetic skin. “We uploaded our consciousness. There’s no way as organics we could’ve survived the trip!”