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