By feeding the pulses through Alan's home-brewed computers, they learn to communicate with one another. They begin by trading simple questions. Soon, caught up in the exchange and learning to trust each other, the two strangers pose to one another the ultimate questions of existence. Twenty-five years later, I learned that the incoming signal doesn't have to come from the Great Spiral Nebula for the exchange to be worthwhile. Nebraska will do.
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