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Flat White

The Greens: calling occupants of interplanetary craft

31 October 2021

6:00 PM

31 October 2021

6:00 PM

No one, but no one, will ever forget Bob Brown and his “fellow Earthians” speech. “Why aren’t the intergalactic phones ringing,” he asked back in 2012.

“Surely we are not, in this crowded reality of countless other similar planets, the only thinking beings to have turned up. They have extincted themselves.

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