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.,~=$§£### Antennas  For Larger Bandwith,  We  Have ###£§$=~,.
..,~=$§£##     Build Specialized Antennaes For      ##£§$=~,..
.,~=$§£###   Specific Wavelengths (And Sent Them    ###£§$=~,.
..,~=$§£## Into Orbit), We'Ve  Built Large  As Fuck ##£§$=~,..
.,~=$§£###              Antenna Arrays              ###£§$=~,.
..,~=$§£## We'Ve Virtually Built An Antenna With  A ##£§$=~,..
.,~=$§£###         Dish As Large As Earth.          ###£§$=~,.
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.,~=$§£### We'Ve  Learned About Our Position In The ###£§$=~,.
..,~=$§£##     Solar System, Our Solar Systems      ##£§$=~,..
.,~=$§£### Placement   In   The  Galaxy,   And  Our ###£§$=~,.
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.,~=$§£### And ~Our~ Local  Clusters Place  In  The ###£§$=~,.
..,~=$§£##          Grand Scheme Of Things          ##£§$=~,..
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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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..,~=$§£## And  Despite All This, Despite  All  Our ##£§$=~,..
.,~=$§£###    (Cliche) Beaming Of Fucking Stellar   ###£§$=~,.
..,~=$§£## Radio  Programmes  Out In Fucking  Space ##£§$=~,..
.,~=$§£### At  The  Speed Of Light  (Light  Is  Our ###£§$=~,.
..,~=$§£##  Medium! Goodspeed You, Black Emperor!), ##£§$=~,..
.,~=$§£###      Despite Ghosts Helping And The      ###£§$=~,.
..,~=$§£##     Collective Consciousness Lowpass     ##£§$=~,..
.,~=$§£###    Filtering, Despite Our Very Obvious   ###£§$=~,.
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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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.,~=$§£### I Think Everyone Agrees  That We Have No ###£§$=~,.
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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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