Doing the impossible is only impossible in prospect. Once it has been done, it becomes possible. The possible and impossible, true and false, are always changing. Being at the leading edge of this wavefront allows one to "do the impossible." See "it was true then."

"Heaver than air flying machines are impossible."
Some guy, a few years before the Wright Brothers invented the airplane. (Strangely, several million years after the invention of birds).

Screaming about the semantic contradiction invovled assumes the existence of empirical, Platonic categories of possibility and impossibility. And that gets way out of hand. Let's stick with what we can work with -- our own minds.

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