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In article <3316@xyzzy.UUCP>, throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop) writes:
> 
> Finally, there are things like "it is impossible to make a heavier
> than air flying machine", or "it is impossible to travel faster than
> 10mph by rail", or other examples.  These merely involve things that
> haven't been done yet.  There is no particular well-founded model of
> the situation that forbids the situation.

  Haven't been done yet?  Where do you live?

  Seriously, the above statements are just a misuse of the word impossible.
Impossiblility, to most people, denotes something that can not ever be done
under any circumstances. 
  There are some things that can't be done now, yet aren't impossible (such
as space travel to Mars or Jupiter).  Then there are things that are just
impossible now, and always will be, like the things you mentioned such as
squaring a circle.
  Impossible is defined as something that will never be able to be done under
any circumstances.  What if you said the circumstances were a situation where
only impossible things sould be done?  I think the book Godel, Escher, Bach
talks about impossibility, but i'm not sure...  It is an interesting book
though.
.		----George Regnery
  

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