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