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