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¨~»/†£&@@# lot of us have antennas on our houses #@@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£@@## or balconies, we have built large ##@@£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&&@@ antennas for larger bandwith, we have @@&&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†&@@## build specialized antennaes for ##@@&†/»~¨
¨¨¨~//££&@ specific wavelengths (and sent them @&££//~¨¨¨
¨¨¨»//£££@ into orbit), we've built large as fuck @£££//»¨¨¨
¨~»/†£&@@@ antenna arrays @@@&£†/»~¨
¨¨~~~»/†£@ we've virtually built an antenna with a @£†/»~~~¨¨
¨~»/†£&@@@ dish as large as earth. @@@&£†/»~¨
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¨~»/†£&@@# we've learned about our position in the #@@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@@@ solar system, our solar systems @@@&£†/»~¨
¨~»//†££&@ placement in the galaxy, and our @&££†//»~¨
¨~»/†£&@@# galaxys placement in the local cluster, #@@&£†/»~¨
~»/†£&@@## and »our» local clusters place in the ##@@&£†/»~
¨~»/†£&@@# grand scheme of things #@@&£†/»~¨
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¨~»/†£&@@# and we're moving around the sun at #@@&£†/»~¨
¨¨¨¨~~/†£@ velocity and the suns moving around the @£†/~~¨¨¨¨
¨¨¨¨~/£££@ center of the galaxy at velocity and @£££/~¨¨¨¨
¨~»/†£&@@# the galaxy is moving toward andromeda #@@&£†/»~¨
¨~»//†££&& and we're both moving anticlockwise &&££†//»~¨
¨~»/†£&&@@ around the galaxy. and we as a species @@&&£†/»~¨
¨¨¨¨»/†£&@ have learned to take all that in account @&£†/»¨¨¨¨
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¨~»/†£&@@# and despite all this, despite all our #@@&£†/»~¨
¨¨¨¨¨»/†£@ (cliche) beaming of fucking stellar @£†/»¨¨¨¨¨
¨¨¨¨¨¨»/£& radio programmes out in fucking space &£/»¨¨¨¨¨¨
¨~»/†£&@## at the speed of light (light is our ##@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@## medium! goodspeed you, black emperor!), ##@&£†/»~¨
¨¨¨~~///£& despite ghosts helping and the &£///~~¨¨¨
¨~»/†£&@@@ collective consciousness lowpass @@@&£†/»~¨
¨¨¨»»»»/£& filtering, despite our very obvious &£/»»»»¨¨¨
¨~»/†££££@ beaming of all our secrets in every @££££†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@@# direction known to us, #@@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@@@ @@@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/††££@@ no ¨ one ¨ has ¨ answered @@££††/»~¨
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¨~»/†£&@@# ####¨»» fermi's paradox »»¨#### #@@&£†/»~¨
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¨¨¨¨¨~/†£@ so why is that? @£†/~¨¨¨¨¨
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¨~~»/††††& most opponents to intelligent life in &††††/»~~¨
¨~»/†£&@@# the universe say it's because you need #@@&£†/»~¨
¨¨¨~/††£&@ a class one-or-the-other star and the @&£††/~¨¨¨
¨¨¨¨¨¨»†£@ planet needs to be at a see-and-so @£†»¨¨¨¨¨¨
¨¨¨~//†£&& distance away from the star (like there &&£†//~¨¨¨
¨~»/†£&@## has to be a planet!) ##@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@@# #@@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@@# but really isn't that keeping the #@@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@@# definition of life really lax? #@@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@@@ @@@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@@@ i think everyone agrees that we have no @@@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@@# idea what we're doing (and it probably #@@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@@@ shows) @@@&£†/»~¨
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¨~»/†£@@## i'm gonna go smoke my third cigarette ##@@£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@## this year and try to snatch some beers ##@&£†/»~¨
¨~»/†£&@@# from the local beer thing #@@&£†/»~¨
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