{"id":591,"date":"2010-09-16T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meatleg.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2023-05-17T06:41:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T06:41:12","slug":"about-the-concept-behind-uranus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meatleg.com\/studio\/about-the-concept-behind-uranus\/","title":{"rendered":"About the concept behind \u201cUranus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This song was a geared from a love of science and skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard of people claiming that they had been abducted by aliens, but it wasn&#8217;t until I read <a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/why-people-believe-weird-things\/id428236165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Shermer&#8217;s book Why People Believe Weird Things <\/a>that I was exposed to real life conditions that could lead to such visually and audibly believable hallucinations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/the-year-we-make-contact-in\/392025917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1998 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/meatleg.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UranusFinal-Cover800-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meatleg.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UranusFinal-Cover800-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meatleg.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UranusFinal-Cover800-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/meatleg.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UranusFinal-Cover800-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/meatleg.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UranusFinal-Cover800-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/meatleg.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UranusFinal-Cover800-570x570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/meatleg.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UranusFinal-Cover800-380x380.jpg 380w, https:\/\/meatleg.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UranusFinal-Cover800-285x285.jpg 285w, https:\/\/meatleg.com\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UranusFinal-Cover800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I thought it might be fun to indulge the hallucination by taking it a step further and trying to imagine what circumstances would actually be necessary for an alien race to actually feel compelled to probe a human anus for reasons besides basic scientific curiosity. I am not sure how far in the past the anal-probe meme began to emerge from the alien-abduction meme. I may have initially heard of the concept myself from <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewTVSeason?id=118796525&amp;s=143441\">South Park Season 1: Episode 1 <strong>Cartman Gets an Anal Probe<\/strong><\/a> and I am not sure how many cultural references exist before then.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I think that this kind of cultural phenomenon (the hallucination, not the anal probe) and the inner workings of the brain, are fascinating studies for anyone interested in science and skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Erich Meatleg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song was a geared from a love of science and skepticism. 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