earthling
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An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
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"You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. "Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. "It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.
On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.
Eugene Shoemaker becomes the first Earthling whose cremated remains are interred on the moon.
Also, Dearest Earthlings, Long Tentacles explains to me the following:Just as Earthling brain scientists explain to us, “consciousness” is not a terribly discrete thing.