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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 ,,,.»\$%&£
@£&%$\».,, has to be a planet!) ,,.»\$%&£@
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@£&%$\».,, but really isn't that keeping the ,,.»\$%&£@
£&%$\».,,, definition of life really lax? ,,,.»\$%&£
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£&%$\».,,, i think everyone agrees that we have no ,,,.»\$%&£
@£&%$\».,, idea what we're doing (and it probably ,,.»\$%&£@
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#@£&%$\»., 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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