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##††-.,,,, LOT OF US HAVE ANTENNAS ON OUR HOUSES ,,,,.-††##
@##††-.,,, OR BALCONIES, WE HAVE BUILT LARGE ,,,.-††##@
#@##††-.,, ANTENNAS FOR LARGER BANDWITH, WE HAVE ,,.-††##@#
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#@##††-.,, 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 ,,,,,,,,.-
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-.,,,,,,,, PLACEMENT IN THE GALAXY, AND OUR ,,,,,,,,.-
†-.,,,,,,, GALAXYS PLACEMENT IN THE LOCAL CLUSTER, ,,,,,,,.-†
††-.,,,,,, AND -OUR- LOCAL CLUSTERS PLACE IN THE ,,,,,,.-††
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#@##††-.,, VELOCITY AND THE SUNS MOVING AROUND THE ,,.-††##@#
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#@##††-.,, 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 ,,,,,,.-††
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##††-.,,,, FILTERING, DESPITE OUR VERY OBVIOUS ,,,,.-††##
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#@##††-.,, DIRECTION KNOWN TO US, ,,.-††##@#
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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 ,,,,,.-††#
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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 ,,,,.-††##
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††-.,,,,,, I'M GONNA GO SMOKE MY THIRD CIGARETTE ,,,,,,.-††
#††-.,,,,, THIS YEAR AND TRY TO SNATCH SOME BEERS ,,,,,.-††#
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