The Undiscovered Resource

I would ask this question: What is the largest untapped source of riches on this Earth?

There are many ways to answer this. Colloidal gold and silver suspended in sea water? The potential energy of hydrogen trapped in the very moisture that surrounds us? Undersea methane deposits? Oil deposits?
I would suggest that while each of those has a great value (by weight, scrap computers are richer in gold than the ore of many productive mines) the greatest source of untapped Wealth is to be found in the Sentient Mind. The mind and the discoveries it can make through research.
To understand how little we really know is truley the first step on the path of knowledge and (hopefully) wisdom.
With each generation, humanity continues asking better and better questions. So many of these better questions deserve to be fertilized. Fertilized with research and the funding that will help the questions grow into answers.
These answers have the potential to feed and house the world and the potential to relegate today's chronic illnesses into history books. The potential to educate any and everyone whom would so endevor.
When we finally tap these ideas, these riches, the potential discoveries we make will truley take us to the stars.

Would You be the one?

The one to help discover the cure for a protein based disease, map a pulsar, find extraterrestrial life, discover the ways that the Earth's climate will affect our lives and the lives of our progeny?

If you would help our species and our planet, please consider donating a small portion (little more than a screen saver) of your computer's resources to one or more the BOINC projects : Protein Predictor: http://predictor.scripps.edu/team_display.php?teamid=1914 Nutrino star (pulsar) mapping: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/team_display.php?teamid=3522 Extraterrestrial radio signals (SETI) : http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=118463

To all Sentient Beings:

Please allow me to introduce the United Federation Foundation. We seek to enhance and improve the Sentient condition and it's many possibilities .

For the betterment of all Human Kind, We do propose:

1. To advance the Human condition through both new and existing technologies.
2. To foster the the intellectual evolution of the Species.
3. To spread tolerance and understanding among all Sentient Beings.
4. To fund scientific research.
5. To support new technologies.
6. To fund the advancement of medical research.
7. To encourage the Membership to aid their communities through the donation of their time and other resources.
8. To use our combined stregnth to effect real social change.
9. To preserve the history and cultures of our species to make our true history known..
10. To advance the search for new life.

Please read our Mission statement and consider joining us in our Vision for Humanity.

Our Mission:

The philosophy of this foundation is a simple one: The enrichment of the human condition, the enhancement of the quality of civilization, and to help humanity in meeting its evolutionary obligation of self betterment.

With no research there can be no discovery, and with each discovery, the human condition can be vastly improved. Through research we gain a better understanding of the vast and complex universe in which we exist. Through research we gain a better understanding of whom and what we are.

Ten years ago, we barely knew that there were other solar systems with planetary bodies. Now, the charting of new planets and new solar systems has become a routine event. Imagine what we can learn in the next ten years if scientific research is better aided and supported by the general public. Scientific research meant to be utilized and not abused by a select few. Scientific research not hoarded, lost, or classified needlessly.

By meeting the challenges of the next century with the wisdom to use our resources to enrich and elevate the human condition, we will advance the quality of civilization. As a collective group, we can speed up the processes that will bring tomorrows breakthroughs. Hastening the breakthroughs that will bring new medical techniques, better cleaner energy sources, and the technology to feed and house the world.




Thank You.

Ted Gavinski

The United Federation Foundation