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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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,,-~~:$£#@ We'Ve Learned About Our Position  In The @#£$:~~-,,
,,,,,-~:$£      Solar System, Our Solar Systems     £$:~-,,,,,
,-~:†$#@## Placement   In   The  Galaxy,  And   Our ##@#$†:~-,
,,,,-:†$## Galaxys  Placement In The Local Cluster, ##$†:-,,,,
,-~:†$£### And ~Our~  Local Clusters Place  In  The ###£$†:~-,
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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 £†:-,,,,,,
,,,,,-~†$#  Medium! Goodspeed You, Black Emperor!), #$†~-,,,,,
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,-~:†$£#@#     Collective Consciousness Lowpass     #@#£$†:~-,
,-~:†$£#@#    Filtering, Despite Our Very Obvious   #@#£$†:~-,
,-~:†$£#@# Beaming  Of  All  Our  Secrets  In Every #@#£$†:~-,
,-~:†$£#@#          Direction Known To Us,          #@#£$†:~-,
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,,,--:††$# The Universe  Say It'S Because You  Need #$††:--,,,
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,-~~~††££@ Planet  Needs  To  Be  At  A  See-And-So @££††~~~-,
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,-~:†$£#@#      Definition Of Life Really Lax?      #@#£$†:~-,
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