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