His eye-stubs reached out toward the Eyes in an attempt to copulate with the stars. - Robert L. Forward

They are signaling to us with the neutron star equivalent of America Indian smoke signals!

An animal doesn’t need to develop curiosity and intelligence if it has no problems that need solving.

Finally, in one fateful trillionth of a second, a nuclear compound was formed that had two very important properties: it was stable, and it could make a copy of itself.
Life had come to the crust of the neutron star.