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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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...^~:=£¤# 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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.....^~:=£ No    .   One    .    Has   .   Answered £=:~^.....
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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 ###¤£=:~^.
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.....^~:=£      Definition Of Life Really Lax?      £=:~^.....
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..^~:=£¤## Idea  What We'Re Doing (And It  Probably ##¤£=:~^..
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..^~:=£¤## This Year And Try To Snatch  Some  Beers ##¤£=:~^..
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