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¨.=††§&¶## OR BALCONIES, WE HAVE BUILT LARGE ##¶&§††=.¨
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¨.=††§&¶@# ANTENNA ARRAYS #@¶&§††=.¨
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¨.=††§&¶¶¶ DISH AS LARGE AS EARTH. ¶¶¶&§††=.¨
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¨.=††§&¶@# SOLAR SYSTEM, OUR SOLAR SYSTEMS #@¶&§††=.¨
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¨.=††§&¶@@ GALAXYS PLACEMENT IN THE LOCAL CLUSTER, @@¶&§††=.¨
¨.=††§&¶@# AND =OUR= LOCAL CLUSTERS PLACE IN THE #@¶&§††=.¨
¨.=††§&¶¶@ GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS @¶¶&§††=.¨
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¨.=††§&@## CENTER OF THE GALAXY AT VELOCITY AND ##@&§††=.¨
¨.=††§&@## THE GALAXY IS MOVING TOWARD ANDROMEDA ##@&§††=.¨
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¨.=††§&¶@# AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT (LIGHT IS OUR #@¶&§††=.¨
¨¨¨¨.†††&@ MEDIUM! GOODSPEED YOU, BLACK EMPEROR!), @&†††.¨¨¨¨
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¨.=††§&¶@# SO WHY IS THAT? #@¶&§††=.¨
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¨.=††§&@## THE UNIVERSE SAY IT'S BECAUSE YOU NEED ##@&§††=.¨
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¨.=††§&¶## PLANET NEEDS TO BE AT A SEE-AND-SO ##¶&§††=.¨
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¨.=††§&¶@# BUT REALLY ISN'T THAT KEEPING THE #@¶&§††=.¨
¨¨¨.==†§§¶ DEFINITION OF LIFE REALLY LAX? ¶§§†==.¨¨¨
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¨.=††§&¶@@ IDEA WHAT WE'RE DOING (AND IT PROBABLY @@¶&§††=.¨
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