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@@$$†«.,,,     ####,«« Fermi'S Paradox ««,####      ,,,.«†$$@@
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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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@@$$†«.,,, No   ,    One    ,   Has   ,    Answered ,,,.«†$$@@
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$†«.,,,,,,      ####,«« Fermi'S Paradox ««,####     ,,,,,,.«†$
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@@$$†«.,,,              So Why Is That?             ,,,.«†$$@@
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##@@$$†«., Most Opponents  To  Intelligent  Life In ,.«†$$@@##
#@@$$†«.,, The Universe Say It'S  Because You  Need ,,.«†$$@@#
@@$$†«.,,, A  Class  One-Or-The-Other  Star And The ,,,.«†$$@@
@$$†«.,,,, Planet  Needs  To  Be  At  A  See-And-So ,,,,.«†$$@
$$†«.,,,,, Distance Away From The Star (Like  There ,,,,,.«†$$
$†«.,,,,,,           Has To Be A Planet!)           ,,,,,,.«†$
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@$$†«.,,,, But   Really  Isn'T  That  Keeping   The ,,,,.«†$$@
@@$$†«.,,,      Definition Of Life Really Lax?      ,,,.«†$$@@
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##@@$$†«., I Think Everyone  Agrees That We Have No ,.«†$$@@##
#@@$$†«.,, Idea What  We'Re Doing (And  It Probably ,,.«†$$@@#
@@$$†«.,,,                  Shows)                  ,,,.«†$$@@
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$†«.,,,,,,      ####,«« Fermi'S Paradox ««,####     ,,,,,,.«†$
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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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