WHERE
WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
Think of the famous Fermi Paradox:
1) humans are the only intelligent life in the universe
2) advanced civilizations destroy themselves
3) we are in a galactic zoo
4) aliens hide in plain site
I bet you forget that we are but a speck in the vastness
beyond the sheltering sky Most days thinking this is all
there is But have no fear! There is a new telescopic camera
One that will measure: abundance+vegetation growth +ozone
All for 100 million U.S. provided by a Russian Yuri Milner
When the abundance numbers come in +they are expected to be
staggering will anxiety+depression plummet? Will we revel in our
abundance? Perhaps we will embrace the Sapient become the wise
Homo And realize that: sloth+greed wrath+pride lust+envy+gluttony
hide in plain sight The aliens within us?
Or the sine qua non of what it means to be HUMAN?
Except for Hermann Meuter Whale researcher Not he a petri-dish
in which aliens might flourish Stroked +whispered to a stranded Orca
for 36 hrs though thousands of seals made sounds like laughter I have
never heard a seal vocalize said Hermann
And somewhere out there beyond the 5000 exoplanets discovered to date
by the Kepler telescope laughter is building +picking up steam It will take
at least 3 billion light years to reach the Blue Planet where a deep and twisted
silence will have reigned for millennia +the last laugh+the first laugh will
be united
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Summer 2015
songanddancegirl 