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The Search for Aliens

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The Problem With Leaks in Television Signals

The entire Milky Way galaxy rotates, so while we aimed at the globular cluster, Messier 13... Stop saying globular cluster. Well, that's what it's called. It's a cluster circle. So we aimed the signal at the cluster, but 25,000 years later, the cluster is not going to be where the signal arrives. And we're not here to get the message. That too. We've actually been leaking television signals, radio signals. By accident, from our communication that's been going on ever since ... Oh, they can contact. The Hitler thing was going out in the 1930s if you remembered the film Contact. Like I love Lucy episodes and Nazi

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