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