If many extraterrestrial civilizations were nearby but trying to keep quiet, how would you suggest drawing them out?
What do you think would finally be their, "Enough, we gotta say something!" situation?
Edit: Put another way, what might serve as a cosmic icebreaker?
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I wouldn't. If you determine that other life is intentionally staying quiet, why would you not also theorize on why they stay* silent?
I like to imagine a sort of awkward strangers reasoning for it, personally, where it's not a matter of anything untoward involved, so much as nobody able to decide how to break the ice. Supposing that, I wonder what the cosmic icebreaker might be?