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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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##@@$††«,, THE UNIVERSE SAY IT'S BECAUSE YOU NEED ,,«††$@@##
###@@$†«,, A CLASS ONE-OR-THE-OTHER STAR AND THE ,,«†$@@###
###@$††«,, PLANET NEEDS TO BE AT A SEE-AND-SO ,,«††$@###
@$$†,,,,,, DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE STAR (LIKE THERE ,,,,,,†$$@
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@$†«,,,,,, BUT REALLY ISN'T THAT KEEPING THE ,,,,,,«†$@
##@@$††«,, DEFINITION OF LIFE REALLY LAX? ,,«††$@@##
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@$$$$††«,, I THINK EVERYONE AGREES THAT WE HAVE NO ,,«††$$$$@
##@@$††«,, IDEA WHAT WE'RE DOING (AND IT PROBABLY ,,«††$@@##
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##@@$††«,, I'M GONNA GO SMOKE MY THIRD CIGARETTE ,,«††$@@##
##@@$††«,, THIS YEAR AND TRY TO SNATCH SOME BEERS ,,«††$@@##
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