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