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