fermi's paradox       
                          
                                          
 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.          
                                          
 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          
                                          
 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 
                                          
 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,          
                                          
 no      one        has       answered 
                                          
                          
      fermi's paradox       
                          
                                          
             so why is that?              
                                          
 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 
           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 
                  shows)                  
                                          
                          
       fermi's paradox      
                          
                                          
 i'm  gonna go smoke  my  third cigarette 
 this year and  try to  snatch some beers 
        from the local beer thing