{"id":1351,"date":"2010-11-21T13:48:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2020-05-10T18:28:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T01:28:29","slug":"tsa-and-the-coming-great-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/tsa-and-the-coming-great-filter","title":{"rendered":"TSA and the Coming Great Filter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many people think that the issues Lifeboat Foundation is discussing will not be relevant for many decades to come. But recently a major US Governmental Agency, the TSA, decided to make life hell for 310 million Americans (and anyone who dares visit the USA) as it reacts to the coming Great Filter.<\/p>\n

What is the Great Filter<\/a>? Basically it is whatever has caused our universe to be dead with no advanced civilizations in it. (An advanced civilization is defined as a civilization advanced enough to be self-sustaining outside its home planet.) <\/p>\n

The most likely explanation for this Great Filter is that civilizations eventually develop technologies so powerful that they provide individuals with the means to destroy all life on the planet. Technology has now become powerful enough that the TSA even sees 3-year-old girls as threats who may take down a plane so they take away her teddy bear and grope her<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Do I agree with the TSA\u2019s actions? No, because they are not risk-based. For example, they recently refused to let a man board a plane even when he stripped down to his underwear<\/a> that \u201cleft nothing to the imagination\u201d as he attempted to prove that he didn\u2019t have a bomb on his body. Instead they arrested him, handcuffed and paraded him through two separate airport terminals in his underwear, stole his phone, and arrested a bystander who filmed the event and stole her camera as well. Obviously the TSA\u2019s actions in this instance did nothing to protect Americans from mad bombers. And such examples are numerous.<\/p>\n

But is the TSA in general reacting to real growing threats as the Great Filter approaches? You bet it is. The next 10 years will be interesting. May you live in interesting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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