Okay, so you imagine a galaxy-wide communist society in which everyone is successfully prevented from emitting any unencrypted signal from so much as a Dyson refrigerator, for tens of thousands of years at a time.
No, I imagine them doing exactly the same thing we are: using more and more efficient methods of communication as we develop them. Compressing and encoding data, focusing our transmissions where they need to be instead of blasting at max power in all directions, using the most effective form of transmission for the purpose whether it’s laser, microwaves, specific wavelengths of radio, or hard line connections for planet side comms. Signals decay very rapidly over distance so unless you have a very good reason to build a gigantic transmitter capable of reaching beyond a few light years in all directions you’re not going to just accidentally wind up communicating with a random star 100ly away.
Oh, yeah, because zero of the roughly 5 quintillion aliens which the Milky Way could comfortably support have hobbies (very primitive) and none would ever use a cheap and effective terraforming unit or dyson sphere even once in 80 thousand years when they could use a more expensive one which mimics pure blackbody radiation
even in war (or are they pacifist communists), they would never emit a signal for any reason on any of the multiple trillions of planets during this 80,000 year period. not even from a bomb.
yes, yes; this all makes sense -- I have done the math.
maybe all 5 quintillion aliens are being hunted by equally non-emitting terminators and they don't want to give themselves away and also they want to save energy
directional communication makes sense when you have only two planets. if you have an entire solar system (or the entire galaxy) it's a dumb idea to eschew simple omnidirectional devices
You should really look into basic probability calculation LOL. If you have to come up with like nine different copes like "alien population in Milky Way is low" AND "aliens are relatively low technology with no Dyson spheres and limited terraforming" AND "aliens by mere chance don't exist within this arm of the Milky Way (except for us)" AND "zero aliens which do exist have tried deliberately signalling to the rest of the galaxy despite humans having done this nearly continuously since they developed the means" AND AND AND
Like just throw in the towel bro. You're adding epicycles on top of epicycles when the answer is right in front of you. You're just too stubborn to admit you were wrong.
Who are you responding to? I gave one reason and it’s called the inverse square law. The distances we’re talking about are unimaginably huge so the chances of any signal reaching us is practically zero unless it’s close by (within a few hundred light years) and intentionally directed at us with sufficient power.
Despite all your bluster you obviously have no idea what you’re talking about if you think exoplanet detection techniques can tell us if there is even a single radio transmitter on that planet.
you literally think that aliens are all so primitive and just happen to be completely absent from anywhere within 5000 light-years despite that being so statistically improbable it's laughable.
that every alien race just happens to either be on the opposite side of the galactic core or they all abide by the Georgia Guidestones and live primitive one-planet lifestyles.
how many copes do you need, honestly? either that or some people are literally incapable of grasping basic statistics.
by the way, how would you have felt if you didn't have breakfast this morning?
