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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 ######...#
##.#.#####          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 #.##...#.#
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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      .#.#.##...
..##.#...#     collective consciousness lowpass     #####.#..#
.#.###..##    filtering, despite our very obvious   ....###.##
###..#.#.. beaming of  all  our  secrets  in  every ...#..##.#
..#.####.#          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 ###.##..#.
..####...# distance away  from the star (like there ..##.#.###
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.#.#.####. but  really   isn't  that  keeping   the ..#..###..
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...##.#.## i think everyone agrees that we have  no ##..##.###
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