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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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