He's referring to the filter that prevents civilizations from progressing into a space-faring species. It's the theory behind why we haven't seen aliens (if you believe that) -- there's some filter in place that stops everyone. War, religion, etc.
Actually we're under a silent galactic quarantine -- the aliens need to keep us here on this rock because we are the main source of entertainment in the galaxy. Once we become a space-fairing species, we'd have no time to produce mindless entertainment that the aliens can pirate across the galaxy. So that's the real filter we need to break. Kidding... half-kidding.
He's referring to the filter that prevents civilizations from progressing into a space-faring species. It's the theory behind why we haven't seen aliens (if you believe that) -- there's some filter in place that stops everyone. War, religion, etc.
Actually we're under a silent galactic quarantine -- the aliens need to keep us here on this rock because we are the main source of entertainment in the galaxy. Once we become a space-fairing species, we'd have no time to produce mindless entertainment that the aliens can pirate across the galaxy. So that's the real filter we need to break. Kidding... half-kidding.
Simpsons did it.