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