Germany is a country of procrastinators. Christian Lindner’s FDP has known this for a long time, but Friedrich Merz also recognized it. For example, wind power: It is a transitional technology, he recently said on Maybrit Illner on ZDF, and he believes that wind turbines can be dismantled in the future “because they are ugly and because they do not fit into the landscape”. The future is nuclear fusion, said the man who could soon be Chancellor. They are in favor of two large fusion reactors in Germany, which are to be tested here, and they want to have the first reactor online here; this technology should not be left to China. “These are perspectives that we have to talk about,” said Merz.
Said, sent, and there’s already a lot of screaming. That was to be expected. Merz tells fairy tales, they say. Not because nuclear fusion isn’t a good idea. Of course it has gigantic potential. But research has been carried out on it for decades, but the prospects are still uncertain. The technology is expensive, the market readiness of fusion reactors cannot be foreseen, at least during Merz’s lifetime, and to position this vague prospect against solutions that are necessary in the short term is dishonest.
But what is completely overlooked is that Friedrich Merz is right! He just doesn’t actually think far enough. Why so hesitant, Mr. Merz?
Time travel will suddenly solve all the world’s problems
Because of course the future does not belong to nuclear fusion. Everyone knows that this can only be an interim technology at best. The future belongs to the time machine. Instead of sticking to renewable energies, Germany should urgently invest more money in research into time travel. We have to stop just talking about openness to technology, we have to finally live it! For far too long we have been trying to solve tomorrow’s problems using today’s methods. Wind turbines are ugly, biomass stinks, solar panels are blue. Germany therefore needs two large time machines to be tested here as quickly as possible. We must be the first to be online, because we cannot leave this key technology to China.
The great thing about this technology is that time travel will suddenly solve all the world’s problems, and until then we’ll just bury our heads in the sand. Nobody has to be upset about changes, everything can stay as it is. We can even turn the wheel back and build nice nuclear and coal-fired power plants again. We could actually tear down the wind turbines today. That would be responsible politics, because these things are ugly and spoil the view. And when the world blows up in our face at some point, we’ll just get into a converted silver-grey DeLorean, put on some funny glasses, travel back to the 1950s and make everything right again. That means: If we do everything right, then the time machine will of course not be a DeLorean, but a VW Golf. On the other hand, if we continue to delay, it may become a Chinese BYD. These are perspectives that we unfortunately have to talk about.
But wait, what can you hear again from the corner of the procrastinators? That’s not possible, just science fiction? That was to be expected. The only thing that is true is that it’s not possible yet. It may be that a journey into the past would require strange distortions of space-time that are perhaps only theoretically possible. And which, from today’s perspective, no one can produce artificially or even control. But who cares about today’s perspective? The solutions have long been there, just in the future. Physicists have demonstrably not yet passed a law of nature that would prohibit time travel. And “science fiction” demonstrably contains the word “science.” Even in the first place.
Speaking of evidence: Any criticism of this comment would be completely anachronistic. Because future scientific studies have repeatedly proven that every single argument is conclusive.
