They might've, yeah. Either that or they found a more hospitable area on this planet, but... I don't know. Guess it depends on how important we were to them, if they'd be willing to abandon the pods just like that.

[ He'll get a better notion of their situation once he starts looking around, and he'll likely draw similar conclusions. How it looks like the ship's been here for years. Jim happens to have a very vivid memory of something similar. That'll be an unpleasant memory to relive, yet at the same time a hopeful one. ]

It's possible that someone was meant to to know, but that link might've been severed when we crashed. Otherwise I think someone would've come for us or the actual crew of the ship by now.