Nuclear Parable of Arts and Sciences

Once there were two men, a scientist and an artist. They were dead and went to heaven, along with everyone else in the human race because there was a global nuclear war. God says to the two, “Ok. I’ll give you a time machine to go back in time to five years before the end of human history. You’ll have complete control of the UN and all world governments and all world resources. And I can give you a clue. Some races avoid your end by using atomic explosions to propel themselves to the stars and not as weapons of war.”

So they go back and the scientist immediately sets up the world’s biggest scientific community looking for the solution. Five years pass and unfortunately no new invention is found to reach the stars. The speed of light barrier and the immense G forces on the human cannot be solved. Bang! He meets God again and is asked what went wrong. He says “relativity”.

Nuclear Parable of Arts and Sciences continued

On the parallel earth, the artist immediately commands that an atomic bomb is sent into space and exploded. 90% of the satellites fall back to earth. He then commands it done again to “check it out” and the remaining 10% of satellites tumble back to earth. He then asks the scientists what could harness such an incredible power to reach the stars? They start to talk of setting up a commission to investigate, but before they can win that argument he says “well what about a tin can?” So they put into space a 50 tonne steel cannon and it shatters into a million pieces. He then says, well what about a 200 tonne cannon? The scientists explain that such an object is too heavy to put into space “in one go”. So he says “please ask the astronauts to put some pieces together”. After that is done, it too shatters into a million pieces. Finally he says “Build me a 1,000 tonne cannon”. This time it doesn’t shatter but completely disappears. Joyfully the artist says to the scientists “We could evacuate earth on the back of that”.