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