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