I didn ' t know people needed s so bad <| sep |> Nice , I never ever thought about the protomolecule like that before . It being more of a program that ' s awaiting the next line of code so to speak . I sort of thought of it before as being made by the creators , then it set off on it ' s own devices in a way . Not so much as a tool that ' s still attached and waiting for and listening for instructions . This of course implies that it ' s reaching out and waiting for something that ' s not going to answer since the Creators are long gone . For any programmers or people who know networking . it reminds me of the idea that a program is written that pings an address that isn ' t available anymore , it gets Destination Host Not Found or Unreachable errors sent back to it . So the protomolecule could be thought of like that I suppose . Reach out . no response . do something . Reach out . no response . do something . etc .