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