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Showing posts with label World Peace. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 6, 2009

World Peace: A Physical Impossibility?

Today I happened to visit Slashdot.org to see if there was anything interesting there and their when-ever-they-care-to-update-it poll caught my eye. After voting I looked at the results and I was struck by some of the results. The question was "Which breakthrough is most likely?" With 7 options: 1. Time Travel, 2. Faster Than Light Travel, 3. Human-Level AI, 4. Discovery of Aliens, 5. Immortality, 6. World Peace, 7. Sharks With Frickin' Lasers.

According to poll it would seem that world peace ranks down there in believability with things that are, for all we know, physical impossibilities. I just found it interesting that world peace would be in the same category as things that the slashdot crowd consider to be physically impossible. This would seem to indicate that people consider world peace to be a physical impossibility. I don't consider it a physical impossibility, hence my vote.