/sci/ - Science & Math

Come on /sci/ I'm sure you have valuable insight.

hey /sci/, why are alien civilizations so quiet?
decades of SETI and the best they've got is the WOW! signal

-are they communicating in a medium we are not advanced enough to realize exists?
-have they all died out? is there some thing that all sentient races do which destroy themselves?
-is it the dark forest scenario? where whoever cries out is the first to be eaten by wolves?
-are they all computer intelligences and have simply retreated into their own self-imposed Matrix?
-are there simply so few we haven't detected them yet?
-or is light speed the best we have, and ultimately any signals fade into background noise within a few lightyears?

the silence is eerie