I was watching some Neil degrsse shit before, and I think people grossly misunderstand everything that has to go right for us to actually have an encounter with another species.
Like the main thing is that our technology is barely 1000 years old. It's only the year 2025
In the year 1025 our tech was trash like trash compared to what it is now. And I highly doubt it humans will still be around in the year we would call 3025. Either nuclear war, or from consuming all of natural resources to the point we go extinct.
Either way the window for another species to meet humans is like 2,000 tops....
The planet is billions of years old
2,000 years is less than a couple seconds in a day.
That's the window. So unless they started to come here before we even evolved into an intelligent species that's prolly no chance we'll still be here if it was our radio waves that attract them.
Our lifespan and the age of our species doesn't work in our favor. We'll be long gone before anything comes here for us.
Again the planet is billions of years old, it prolly takes millions of years to travel between civilizations. And if billions is off, it definitely takes longer than 10k years...
And again...our tech is only a couple hundred years old at best. And we're already making contingencies for the end of the planet because we're that self destructive.
We're not gonna be here another 5-10k years. Time isn't working in our favor. They're never get here in time, and we're not smart enough to even get to Mars safely yet