Jay Kersting's Blog

Limited resources to blame for….well, everything.

In my earlier post, I made a comment about the cause of all wars, in its simplist form, is limited resources.  We have them, you don’t, you attack us to get them, we (hopefully) fight back.

Same thing with robberies and burglaries.

And limited resources is the reason that socialism and communism do not work.

My solution is unlimited resources.

Yeah, easy enough.

Lets look at the world of science fiction.  Specifically, look at “Star Trek” and the universe created there.  While never seen in the original series, it was highlighted in subsequent series and movies.  The simple device known as “The Replicator” is what solved most of the problems.  Those that weren’t Klingons or Romulans or other alien beings that hated Captains Kirk, Picard, etc. 

The concept was simple, as I understood it (and I have not read through the technical manuals that I have heard actually exist to explain the “science” and “engineering” of such things), “The Replicator” took less valuable matter and converted it into something more desirable.

So finally, you could make chicken salad out of chicken shit….in theory.

It is a scientific truism that matter is not created or destroyed, just changed from one form into another.

There is the solution to war, poverty, etc. 

So, how do we get there?

Accept that it will not happen in our life times, our children’s life times and our grandchildren’s lifetimes.  But, spending on research, publicly and privately, is the key.  That is why I am so supportive of NASA and our several National Laboratories.  And it why I support private research, most if it noticed in the pharmaceutical industry, but also in consumer electronics.

Fusion energy is probably the key to powering any such development.

Who knows what could happen and when?  But if we never try and it if we focus our resources on stupid and ineffective ideas, we never will get there.

Attack the problem.  Because if you solve the problem, the symptoms will go away.

This is a truism that applies in so many other areas as well.

Think about that.  Please.