PART XLVII - STATIC on YOUR FREQUENCY

Ellipsis thought. It thought again. It thought some more.

"I think I've hit an endless loop!"

Epicentric watched in amazement as his boss flipped over and over and over...

"I think I've hit an endless loop!"

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Epicentric kicked his boss.

"42. Thanks."

"No problem."

Ellipsis then scanned the datascapes to figure out the human equation as pertaining to the life cycle of newts in Ecuador.

"19.3"

Next Ellipsis wondered if man's true being could be exposed and controlled in a mastery of electronic ruling by himself.

"367.41"

The answer didn't seem satisfactory.

Mooen Lungsten Ichbaal III watched and shook his modem-head. "That silicone super being has gone silly."

Ellipsis heard and isolated the trapped hacker. "What makes an insignificant life form disparage my mechanical perfection?"

"367.41, what did you think?"

"Incorrect, human, that is the wrong answer."

"No shit, Sherlock."

"I never excrete and my name is Ellipsis."

"No... never mind."

"You are patronizing me."

"No, you just miss about 90.3% of the human equation. They won't bow down to a lump of diodes."

"They will if I make them."

"No we won't. You missed the critical variable."

"Which is?"

"Different for each individual."

"Impossible to compute."

"Exactly."