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#@@#*††~:. ####.~~ fermi's paradox ~~.#### .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. lot of us have antennas on our houses .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. antennas for larger bandwith, we have .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. specific wavelengths (and sent them .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. antenna arrays .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. 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 .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. around the galaxy. and we as a species .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. (cliche) beaming of fucking stellar .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. at the speed of light (light is our .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. despite ghosts helping and the .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. 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 .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. a class one-or-the-other star and the .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. 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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#@@#*††~:. shows) .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. #...~~~~~~~~...# .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. #...~~~~~~~~...# .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. i'm gonna go smoke my third cigarette .:~††*#@@#
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#@@#*††~:. from the local beer thing .:~††*#@@#
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