Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Are we alone is the question humanity has been obsessed with from time immemorial.To demonstrate our own technological progress, the Arecibo message was sent with information about our civilization with the hope that it would one day be received. Just a few years later, the Wow! signal was recorded, but this time it wasn't sent by us.

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"The Shape of Nothing" by Daniel Birch
freemusicarchive.org/music/Daniel_Birch/Synth_Movements_Vol1/The_Shape_Of_Nothing

"Love on the Telephone" by Foreigener
youtu.be/rvaFSFcJME0

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