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