Impossible?

 

Impossible

But the world is full of zanies and fools
Who don’t believe in sensible rules
And won’t believe what sensible people say,
And because these daft and dewy- eyed dope
Keep building up impossible hopes,
Impossible things are happening every day!

Think Winning, Normal, and True… be a dewy-eyed dope and think improbable, not impossible.

In the movie Dumb and Dumber the Jim Carey character asks if a guy like him stands a chance with a girl like Lauren Holly, the female lead actress. Wanting to let him down easily the Laruen Holly character said that the chances of a girl like her being with a guy like him were one in a million. To which Jim Carey’s character brightened and said ”So you’re telling me that there is a chance, YEAH”  When we say impossible often we only mean merely improbable. Impossible things,  undefined, would violate a law of physics. Improbable means that it does not violate any known laws, only that it hasn’t been done yet. Often knowing that something is possible, even as a visual special effect, is enough to change it from improbable and make it possible.

Case in point is the sliding doors in Star Trek TOS. The sliding doors were a futuristic effect created by an off-screen stagehand moving the door as an actor approached. What was impossible at the time is now a standard at virtually every convenience store when engineers saw that it was improbable, not impossible, and produced ways to do it in real life not as a special effect.

Can man get to the moon or fly? Improbable, NOT impossible.