Solving MAD Catch 22 is for Europe to Discover

The biggest "Catch 22" of life is mortality. However common sense tells us never to waste time thinking about any possible avoidance of the inevitable. Tales on the search for eternal youth or immortality are confined to legends, fables and myths.

If science and economics cannot present us with a solution to a problem and that problem is so fundamental, we simply ignore our desire for a solution. Just like it is in respect to human mortality. We simply blank out our need for avoidance. Our entry into the atomic age quickly led to the "Catch 22" of MAD. That it could all go up tomorrow, we now totally fail to acknowledge. Not because of a lack of evidence that global conflicts do and have happened, but simply because there is no possible solution to this danger we are aware of. Unless that is travelling to the stars were possible.

In an evolutionary sense our atomic age is unique because quite literally any repeat of our 2 global conflicts held in the previous century would return us to the Stone Age. This is a literal danger because of the nature of thermonuclear weapons, difficult as it is to imagine such a complete reversal of human fortunes.

Even though the global security doctrine of MAD has been disbanded, the potential is very likely to remain always. If there is no territorial expansion out of our solar system then our "Catch 22" is that we must avoid global conflict until the end of time. It is more likely that we will therefore as some time stumble into a global conflict and return to the Stone Age. Then we will recover and over centuries reach the same evolutionary point and the light speed barrier being an absolute, that subsequent atomic age will stumble back into the Stone Age again. Ad infinitum.

A simple "what if" analysis would ask "what would any planet do anywhere upon reaching the atomic age?” The obvious upbeat thought would be that for the majority of those planets, the "atomic" part of the atomic age would supply the means to reach the stars. One alternative scenario might be that this step always awaits a yet to be discovered new power source material. This could be discovered in 10 years or 10,000. That random exposure to an atomic age for "any planet, any where", wherein there is no safe way to evolve beyond it before a further invention or discovery takes place, makes a mockery of any belief in a universal creator.

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It seems more likely that the power source material is indeed the nuclear fission that Orion seeks to utilise. Again, on the "god and creator" level, that the invention exists without any "useful use" except as a mass killing device is probably a good clue. Furthermore all scientific dogma on light speeds being unbreakable is pure, pure theory. It is rather more likely that some very clever humans got it back-to-front, than a creator of worlds enjoys watching each civilisation enter the atomic age and then plunge back to the stone, ad infinitum.

Economists should be very aware that our present economic system is called the "classical economics" model. Both Marxism and the subsequent Keynesian theories were very complex and clever, only they didn't hold true to life. I find it reassuring to find a parallel so that I can call myself a "classical physicist" and return to the Newtonian fundamentals. Especially in respect to a self-propelled million tonne spaceship hurtling to the stars, with no speed limit. With a vengeance I then take the theory of relativity and say well the theory is more likely applicable to acceleration rates in space, meaning as you get faster you can endure much greater acceleration forces on the human body. Voila, I am on holiday in the galaxy.

Any travel to the stars that takes more than Columbus's voyage to the Americas is a big "no, no". Of course Americans have never really discovered any physical territory and seem to be plagued by stories of being visited by aliens. It is a pity that there cannot be made more useful analogies between the socio-political nature of Europe prior to 1492 and the America of today. Europeans although much backward to the Americans in the technologies, have no problem encompassing the reality of travelling into the unknown to discover alien cities. In reality that is and not in Hollywood.