KEN RUEGG
VICTIMIZED BY MILLIONS
FALLING ON YOUR SWORDS TOGETHER - THE MATHEMATICS OF THE EXTINCTION PROBLEM
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  THE RATE OF ACCELERATION of scientific advance, upon which depends technological advance, INCREASINGLY EXCEEDS the rate at which Evolution of Mind accelerates.                                                                                                                                                                                                               MAN'S TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS is self-evident, but his "moral" progress is seen as doubtful.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    THIS is because the evolution of Man's collective mind towards "civilized" mind, although accelerating, requires enormously longer periods of time than does his technological advance, which accelerates much more rapidly. The gap between the two rates of acceleration progressively widens: advancing technologies outstrip moral advance more and more with the passage of time.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      SCIENTIFIC advances, and resultant advances in technology, further Civilization, which in turn provides an environment necessary for continued evolution of mind. The problem is that seemingly beneficial advances in science and technology, produce relatively rapid, enormous increases in Man's self-destructive capabilities, while his mental evolution does not keep pace.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               TECHNOLOGY has both the elements of benefit, and of destructiveness, built into it, as inseparable from each other. Gasoline can be used to power a car, or to power a tank. Whereas enrichment of Uranium provides fuel for nuclear reactors, further enrichment results in weapons-grade material.                                                                                                                                                                                                   NUCLEAR WEAPONS presently litter the Earth, and MATTER-ANTI-MATTER WEAPONS will replace them soon enough, at an enormously greater level of potential destructiveness. Scientific experiments with anti-matter are currently underway.                                                                                                                                                                              MATTER-ANTI-MATTER WEAPONS are the most destructive weapons possible, because the origin of the Universe itself was due to the "Big Bang": an enormous matter-anti-matter explosion, one additional piece of matter providing the material which constitutes the physical Universe.                                                                                                                                                           MAN WILL TURN THE EARTH INTO A GIANT PLANETARY BOMB, while being little more advanced mentally than he is today, and practically as violent.                                                                                                                                                                                                        "Criminal" mind will still be prevalent in the Earth's human population.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          LET ME DO THE MATHEMATICS:                                                                                                                                                                                                                          THE RATE OF ACCELERATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE INCREASINGLY EXCEEDS THE RATE OF ACCELERATION OF EVOLUTIONARY ADVANCE.                                                                                                                                                                                                               LAUNCH CONTROLS + HUMANS = DETONATION OF PLANET (unless the humans, including the "more advanced" among them in positions of "command", learn to press buttons on devices analogous to microwave ovens and television sets, rather than activating consoles which launch missiles and bombers).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           IF WAR REMAINS A "NECESSARY EVIL", TOTAL HUMAN ANNIHILATION IS THE FORESEEABLE NECESSARY CONSEQUENCE:                                                                                                                                                                           RATHER THAN PROGRESSIVELY BECOMING A "LESS DANGEROUS" PLACE, THE WORLD INCREASINGLY BECOMES A "MORE DANGEROUS" PLACE, THROUGH TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE, UNTIL ACHIEVING "SELF-ANNIHILATION CAPABILITY".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            "We have met the enemy, and he is us!"                                                                                                                                                                                                                         -from "Pogo", the comic strip                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 LIMITATIONS placed upon the "technology of destruction" are a possible solution, but efforts by President Barack Obama, and several of his predecessors, have not prevented successful nuclear tests and missile launches by the North Koreans, and diplomacy with Iran's leaders is unlikely to halt Iranian nuclear ambitions.                                                                                                                                                                                                  KIM JONG UN of North Korea, has detonated nuclear weapons, and has successfully launched a satellite into orbit. He also recently executed his own uncle, to consolidate his power as North Korea's "Supreme Leader".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD of Iran, constantly spoke of destroying Israel, while in office for 8 years as Iran's President, and the Iranians are developing the technology with which to attempt to do so. They have a nuclear weapons program, and have successfully test-fired missiles from submarines in the Mediterranean, accurately hitting targets in the mid-Atlantic.                                                                                                                                                                                             ADOLPH HITLER'S scientists had developed surface-to-air missiles which could successfully destroy allied bombers, a jet fighter three times faster than allied fighters, and even more so than bombers, had a nuclear weapons program, and a V3 rocket program. Hitler had already attacked London with V1, and far more deadly V2 rockets. Our ICBM and space programs were developed by German scientists whom we had captured after they fled Peenemunde, the rocket base on the Baltic coast of Nazi Germany, including Werner von Braun, director of the German research effort. Soviet troops seized mostly rockets. The Soviet missile and space programs were based upon what the Russians learned by studying the German equipment.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         TECHNOLOGIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION ARE, AND HISTORICALLY HAVE BEEN, IN THE WRONG HANDS. THERE IS NO REASON TO ASSUME THAT THIS WILL NOT BE THE CASE IN THE FUTURE.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             THE IMPROVEMENT AND PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS IN EXISTING ARSENALS, ALSO INCREASE MANKIND'S SELF-DESTRUCTIVE CAPABILITIES:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         THE UNITED STATES has deployed long-range interceptors (Patriot missile systems) in Europe and elsewhere, and reportedly laser weapons, controlled by computers connected to telemetry and radar, which rapidly aim and fire at multiple airborne targets, launched from land-based missile silos, destroying the missiles and warheads.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A FORMAL DIPLOMATIC PROTEST filed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, maintains that the new weapons systems in place, weaken the ability of Moscow to fight a defensive nuclear war, and thus improve our ability to successfully launch a first strike, making the deployment an act of aggression.                                                                                                                                                                                                    THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION will no doubt seek to counter our new strategic advantage, with improvements to their own arsenal.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A WEAPON SCHEDULED for sea trials by The United States Navy in 2017, accurately fires a hollow metal projectile at mach 7 (seven times the speed of sound), for a distance sufficient to effectively destroy enemy missiles and warheads. In tests, the projectile pierces and destroys anything it hits. Production is so cost-effective, that large numbers of these guns can be manufactured and deployed, at little expense compared to that of other weapons systems.                                                                                                                                                                                       PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN more recently announced (Feb. 2019) the deployment by The Russian Federation of nuclear-tipped, hypersonic missiles which are virtually impossible to intercept!                                                                                                                                                IN 2023, SIX OF PUTIN'S "invincible" hypersonic missiles have been intercepted and destroyed by Ukrainian forces using the high altitude, long-range Patriot air defense missile system supplied to them by The United States!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      PRESIDENT PUTIN has also stated publicly to the media (Feb. 2019) that The Russian Federation is now prepared to win a confrontation with The United States, such as that which occurred during The Cuban Missile Crisis!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    VLADIMIR PUTIN is presently attempting to undo the geopolitical changes which resulted from The Soviet Union's failure to win that confrontation with The United States!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     See "GREAT MEN - THEIR SPEECHES AND IDEOLOGY", under "home", for more information.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           SOON AFTER INVADING UKRAINE ON FEBRUARY 24, 2022, VLADIMIR PUTIN placed his nuclear forces on "high alert". The criminally-insane madman in the Kremlin is signaling to Western nations that he is prepared to fight an all-out nuclear war! Putin the war criminal is attempting to intimidate THE UNITED STATES, THE EUROPEAN UNION, and NATO by threatening to use his nuclear arsenal! As of May 15, 2022, The Russian Federation has threatened both FINLAND and SWEDEN with reprisals if those two nations join NATO!                                                                                                                                                                                                              MORE RECENTLY Russian officials have threatened the use of tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin has refused to rule out a nuclear "first strike" by The Russian Federation against The United States and NATO!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        THE ARMS RACE CONTINUES TO ADVANCE HUMANITY TOWARDS POSSIBLE SELF-EXTINCTION, AND GENERATES ITS OWN MOMENTUM.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             PUTIN'S ATROCITIES IN UKRAINE, FOLLOWING HIS INVASION OF THAT SOVEREIGN REPUBLIC IN 2022, MARK HIM AS A "GREAT MAN" OF THE "CRIMINAL" MIND-TYPE, AND ARE DOCUMENTED IN WESTERN MEDIA. PUTIN HAD ME FOOLED, UNTIL HE SHOWED HIMSELF, AS DID DONALD J. TRUMP.                                                                                                 VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS HIS POLITICAL RIVALS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION EITHER MURDERED, OR IMPRISONED, AS IS THE CASE WITH MR. NAVALNY.                                                                                               WESTERN DIPLOMATS HAVE COMPARED PRESIDENT ZELENSKY OF UKRAINE TO WINSTON CHURCHILL. CHURCHILL KEPT CALLING ADOLPH HITLER, "THE MADMAN".                                                                                       PRESIDENT ZELENSKY HAS STATED THAT IF VLADIMIR PUTIN WINS HIS WAR AGAINST UKRAINE, OTHER SOVEREIGN NATIONS WILL BE ATTACKED BY FORCES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA FEAR THAT IF UKRAINE FALLS, THEY WILL BE NEXT ON VLADIMIR PUTIN'S "HIT LIST"!                                                       THE UNITED STATES IS NOW SUPPLYING UKRAINIAN FORCES WITH LONG RANGE, HIGH ALTITUDE PATRIOT AIR DEFENSE MISSILE SYSTEMS WITH WHICH TO DEFEND THEIR HOMELAND AGAINST RUSSIAN MISSILES, DRONES, AND AIRCRAFT, AND ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL AND OTHER FORMS OF AID, AS OF DECEMBER, 2022.                       AS OF JANUARY, 2023, THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER MEMBERS OF NATO WILL SEND MUCH NEEDED BATTLE TANKS TO UKRAINE! GOD SAVE UKRAINE! GOD SAVE THE UNITED STATES!                                                                                                                                                                         IN LATE DECEMBER, 2022, TELEVISION NEWS HAS REPORTED THAT VLADIMIR PUTIN IS SIGNALING THAT HE WANTS TO END HIS CRIMINAL WAR AGAINST UKRAINE! HE WANTS TO END HIS ILLEGAL CONQUEST OF UKRAINE ON HIS OWN TERMS! PUTIN AND HIS RUSSIAN FEDERATION WILL NOW ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN TERRITORY AND OTHER CONCESSIONS FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE, BY USING "DIPLOMACY" AND "NEGOTIATIONS"!                                                                                                                                                                                                                         See "KILLING HITLER BEFORE LUNCH", "HOW I SPOT MY MIND", and "GREAT MEN - THEIR SPEECHES AND IDEOLOGY", under "home".                                                                                                                                           See "FORCE and FINESSE", under "about".                                                                                                                                                                           See "A NOTE ON ANTI-MATTER", and "TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", under "home"; "THE PROBLEM IN A NUTSHELL", and "THE SOLUTION IN A NUTSHELL", under "about"; and "morality over time", under "contact".                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Also see the **** footnote on GLOBAL WARMING at the bottom of "variation in species", under "contact".