Barking up the wrong tree?

Isnt it just wonderful that reel life can sometimes teach you so much about real life? You are least bothered about what the movie is all about. After a hard day's work, all you care about is a few laughs and some stress-busting entertainment. 

But then, life has this uncanny knack of hitting you hard at the most unexpected moment, which sets you thinking. Thats eggxactly (why am I so influnced by Javed Jaffrey?) what happened to me while watching "Back to the Future". In the movie, the protagonist accidentally travels back in time in a time machine invented by a scientist. What follows is a hilarious sequence of events and how they are dealt with.

Anyway, what I really want to say is that, while watching the movie, I realised that humankind has been trying to solve the wrong problem all along. In fact, the solution to ALL our problems has been right in front of our eyes all this time - TIME TRAVEL. Just that we never realised how to make use of it. The basic premise on which time travel is based, is that every physical entity has a unique identity and presence at every instant. Which means an object at time x and the same object at time y are in fact two different objects. This simple fact leads to infinite possibilities. Imagine:-

1. The world's fuel reserves are about to go kaput. Just travel back in time, and get some fuel from then(there?).

2. No more food shortage. Go back in time, stock up on as much is needed, and come back.

3. Crime can be virtually eliminated. Hop into the future, know about the crime, return to the present, and prevent it from happening.

Isnt this just so simple. Which leads us to the most important point - that we have been unnecessarily trying to solve all of these issues, when we should have been investing all our time and money in making time travel possible. So, here's my advice to all those organisations, governments, NGOs, institutes and individuals, who have been trying hard to solve the energy crisis and feed the burgeoning world population. Concentrate all your efforts in inventing a time machine and thou shalt all live happily ever after.

(All the views expressed in this post are purely delusional. These are just the side effects of an overworked engineer being allowed to write nonsense on his blog)