Are we Really Making Progressing?

[Nanook]

I read in an article today that MIT researchers are saying nuclear fusion energy is less than 10 years away. Although I think many people would have been excited at the news and the potential for a future of nearly limitless clean and safe energy, I couldn't help but to think to myself that here we are on the precipice of mastering and wielding the same incredible phenomena that powers stars yet we still live in a world rife with poverty, greed, selfishness, ignorance, racism, cruelty, malice, etc.

 

We are mastering Godlike power before we master the flaws of our own human nature.

 

Now I have to ask myself the question, "is this really progress?"

 

 

https://futurism.com/mit-researchers-fusion-reactor-very-likely-work?fbclid=IwAR10Vsgz5SCWY9B4eLEpjjSIGcWhdWFCNBXE2OaW05zWeOvX_WqMTh1uoQo

[straight_stewie]

32 minutes ago, Nanook said:

We are mastering Godlike power before we master the flaws of our own human nature.

 

Now I have to ask myself the question, "is this really progress?"

Watch more Star Trek.

I mean really watch it. Watch all the series and movies so that you can get a full picture of the universe, and especially the history the series lays out; i.e. How we got to Star Trek times.

In all reality, scientists have been saying that we will reach fusion in 10 or 20 years time for 50 or 60 years now (literally since nuclear research started proliferating). I find it more likely that we will have matter-antimatter reactors before we get to fusion. The only thing left to build a sustainable matter-antimatter reactor is to produce useful amounts of antimatter. Something that CERN is already working on. The reactions are theoretically much more controllable than any type of nuclear reaction, and the individual components of the fuel are innocuous until they are combined, making fuel handling significantly easier.

[UnfinishedBizz]

47 minutes ago, Nanook said:

I read in an article today that MIT researchers are saying nuclear fusion energy is less than 10 years away. Although I think many people would have been excited at the news and the potential for a future of nearly limitless clean and safe energy, I couldn't help but to think to myself that here we are on the precipice of mastering and wielding the same incredible phenomena that powers stars yet we still live in a world rife with poverty, greed, selfishness, ignorance, racism, cruelty, malice, etc.

 

We are mastering Godlike power before we master the flaws of our own human nature.

 

Now I have to ask myself the question, "is this really progress?"

 

 

https://futurism.com/mit-researchers-fusion-reactor-very-likely-work?fbclid=IwAR10Vsgz5SCWY9B4eLEpjjSIGcWhdWFCNBXE2OaW05zWeOvX_WqMTh1uoQo

 

6 minutes ago, straight_stewie said:

Watch more Star Trek.

I mean really watch it. Watch all the series and movies so that you can get a full picture of the universe, and especially the history the series lays out; i.e. How we got to Star Trek times.

In all reality, scientists have been saying that we will reach fusion in 10 or 20 years time for 50 or 60 years now (literally since nuclear research started proliferating). I find it more likely that we will have matter-antimatter reactors before we get to fusion. The only thing left to build a sustainable matter-antimatter reactor is to produce useful amounts of antimatter. Something that CERN is already working on. The reactions are theoretically much more controllable than any type of nuclear reaction, and the individual components of the fuel are innocuous until they are combined, making fuel handling significantly easier.

I agree with Stewie, the first thing that came to mind was Star Trek and you should watch it. However, its perspective. "God" has godlike powers and stands idly by while kids die of disease and famine. I think humanity has a good shot of coming together when we have these technological advancements that have the potential to fix the worlds problems(like energy, clean water and food for everyone). I find this kind of news encouraging and a step closer to fixing our own flaws. 

[Nanook]

41 minutes ago, straight_stewie said:

Watch more Star Trek.

I mean really watch it. Watch all the series and movies so that you can get a full picture of the universe, and especially the history the series lays out; i.e. How we got to Star Trek times.

In all reality, scientists have been saying that we will reach fusion in 10 or 20 years time for 50 or 60 years now (literally since nuclear research started proliferating). I find it more likely that we will have matter-antimatter reactors before we get to fusion. The only thing left to build a sustainable matter-antimatter reactor is to produce useful amounts of antimatter. Something that CERN is already working on. The reactions are theoretically much more controllable than any type of nuclear reaction, and the individual components of the fuel are innocuous until they are combined, making fuel handling significantly easier.

I don't really understand what Star Trek has to do with this?

[straight_stewie]

1 minute ago, Nanook said:

I don't really understand what Star Trek has to do with this?

That's because you haven't watched it enough yet.

The entire brand is about overcoming human limitations: growing and learning as a species, and growing and learning as individuals.

 

The series has many interesting parallels with the ideas you brought up in your OP.

[UnfinishedBizz]

Just now, Nanook said:

I don't really understand what Star Trek has to do with this?

Star Trek talks extensively about how humanity used to be ("a world rife with poverty, greed, selfishness, ignorance, racism, cruelty, malice, etc.") what changed and how they moved past all of that.