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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 #@§£^†-:..
...:-†^£§@ 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 †-:.......
......:-†^ ^†-:......
.....:-†^£ 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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..:-†^£§@# 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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...:-†^£§@ 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 @§£^†-:...
..:-†^£§@# from the local beer thing #@§£^†-:..
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