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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 ##£@§††~,,
,,,~††§@£# #£@§††~,,,
,,,,~††§@£ 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 £@§††~,,,,
,,,~††§@£# #£@§††~,,,
,,~††§@£## 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, @§††~,,,,,
,,,,~††§@£ £@§††~,,,,
,,,~††§@£# no , one , has , answered #£@§††~,,,
,,~††§@£## ##£@§††~,,
,~††§@£### #,,,~~~~~~~~,,,# ###£@§††~,
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,,,~††§@£# #,,,~~~~~~~~,,,# #£@§††~,,,
,,,,~††§@£ £@§††~,,,,
,,,,,~††§@ so why is that? @§††~,,,,,
,,,,,,~††§ §††~,,,,,,
,,,,,,,~†† 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!) ##£@§††~,,
,~††§@£### ###£@§††~,
,,~††§@£## but really isn't that keeping the ##£@§††~,,
,,,~††§@£# definition of life really lax? #£@§††~,,,
,,,,~††§@£ £@§††~,,,,
,,,,,~††§@ i think everyone agrees that we have no @§††~,,,,,
,,,,,,~††§ idea what we're doing (and it probably §††~,,,,,,
,,,,,,,~†† shows) ††~,,,,,,,
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,,,,,~††§@ #,,,~~~~~~~~,,,# @§††~,,,,,
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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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