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##@&&††»,, ON EARTH (THE PLANET WHERE I LIVE) A ,,»††&&@##
##@&&††»,, 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, ,,»††&&@##
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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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