..»/†*§@## ##@§*†/»..
..»/†*§@## ##@§*†/»..
.....»»/†§ §†/»».....
..»/†*§@@# #@@§*†/»..
..»/†*§@@# #@@§*†/»..
..»/†*§@@# #...»»»»»»»»...# #@@§*†/»..
..../†*§§§ ####.»» Fermi'S Paradox »».#### §§§*†/....
......//*@ #...»»»»»»»»...# @*//......
..»/†*§@## ##@§*†/»..
..»/†*§@@@ 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. ##@§*†/»..
.....»//*§ §*//».....
..»/††**§@ 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 ##@@§†/»..
....../*§@ @§*/......
..»/†*§@## #...»»»»»»»»...# ##@§*†/»..
...../†††§ ####.»» Fermi'S Paradox »».#### §†††/.....
..»/†*§@@@ #...»»»»»»»»...# @@@§*†/»..
......./*@ @*/.......
..»»»»††*§ 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) §*††»»....
..»/†*§@@# #@@§*†/»..
....///†*§ #...»»»»»»»»...# §*†///....
....//*§§§ ####.»» Fermi'S Paradox »».#### §§§*//....
....../†§§ #...»»»»»»»»...# §§†/......
..»†*§@@## ##@@§*†»..
..»/†*§@@# 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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