Saruman declares it to be impossible, while Gandalf seems to see it as plausible but preventable.
And then in a mere 12 years people doubled that, breaking a barrier thought to be impossible.
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And there were great predictions that this was going to be impossible to do, but we did it.
And to be sure, many technologies that were once thought to be impossible are used every day now--inspiring science-fiction writer Arthur C.
Or indeed game ideas in general which turned out to be impossible?
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While civil servants in London may be game-planning for a split you won't find French officials spending time on scenarios they believe to be impossible.
Recently, though, fracking has presented the promise of substantially inreasing our domestic energy supply by opening up new shale formations previously thought to be impossible to produce.
In 2004 everything seemed to be impossible, but in 2005 the first YouTube video was uploaded and Facebook had just been launched, evolving from its early beginnings in a Harvard dorm room.
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For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, it derives from an expression that was popular amongst medieval Londoners that referred to an event whose occurrence was believed to be impossible.
And it's also going to be impossible to shift our energy policy rapidly, and that will be a big political and proper debate among nations and within nations as to how to respond to that.
Manipulating the shape of the threads using this method, called thread-rolling, was thought to be impossible because it would be too hard to control the structure of the screw if metal oozed into odd shapes.
It used to be impossible economically to break down the inedible part of a plant, like a used corncob and other parts of a plant, into cheap, usable sugars to get ethanol at an economic price.
It ought to be impossible to like Johnny but watching him squirm in the clinic with one girlfriend is enough to make you cringe in fear for him, you're so certain that the other girlfriend is going to come in.
It appears to be impossible to foresee all the twists and turns that force majeure or the acts of God may take, and they invariably turn out the disadvantage of the party to the contract whose function is to pay the money.
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"To our complete surprise, we found several red dwarf binaries with orbital periods significantly shorter than the 5-hour cut-off found for sun-like stars, something previously thought to be impossible, " the study's lead author Bas Nefs, from Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, said in a statement.
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We have to learn how to compromise a lock that appears (and is supposed to be) impossible to open without the correct key or code.
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Companies such as mine believe it is going to be virtually impossible to succeed in the new reward structure without recognizing a reality of this new environment.
It would be impossible to list all the issues on our minds, so it would be especially impossible for one person to solve all of them.
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For many years, the 4 minute mile was considered to be an impossible feat.
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Loans to poor people without any financial security had appeared to be an impossible idea.
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But as we can all see, this is going to be practically impossible the way the cash collection is organized.
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When Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were placed into the South Division of the Big 12 with the old SWC schools, it caused scheduling of the OU-Nebraska to be nearly impossible.
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Of course I am labouring the point here to remind us that there has never been a time when mastering the sum of human knowledge has not been felt to be an impossible task.
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The studio tried to make Tangled (which is a retelling of the Rapunzel story) as appealing to boys as possible but trying to lure boys to a princess movie may turn out to be an impossible task.
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It turns out that re-election to Congress would be impossible if the greatest forum for free speech ever created were to be demolished by the unintended consequences of a ham-handed anti-piracy law.
Hedge funds may be forced to sell their most liquid holdings since more complex positions may be impossible to offload.
Many would argue that there is a public interest for private detectives to be employed to uncover information relevant to a judgement about the probity of politicians or public figures, if it is impossible to be obtained in more conventional journalistic ways.
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