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&....&&&.& 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, &.&&..&.&&
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...&&....& Grand Scheme Of Things .&.&&&&..&
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&&&&...&.& 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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&&...&.&&. (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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..&&&&&&&. No . One . Has . Answered .&.&&&&...
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.&.&..&&.& So Why Is That? &&&.&..&..
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&&&..&...& 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 &..&..&...
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&....&&&.& 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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