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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 #@£@¤**«,¨
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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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¨¨¨¨¨¨«*@@ most opponents to intelligent life in @@*«¨¨¨¨¨¨
¨¨¨¨¨¨,*¤£ the universe say it's because you need £¤*,¨¨¨¨¨¨
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¨¨¨¨¨¨«*¤£ planet needs to be at a see-and-so £¤*«¨¨¨¨¨¨
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¨,«**@£@## has to be a planet!) ##@£@**«,¨
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¨¨¨¨¨,***@ 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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¨,«**¤@££@ this year and try to snatch some beers @££@¤**«,¨
¨,«**¤@£@# from the local beer thing #@£@¤**«,¨
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