Is It Possible to Defy the Limits of Human Potential?

[wolram]

How many can you think of like, its impossible to pull your self up by your shoe strings.

 

[cronxeh]

Impossible to make someone love you

 

[leroyjenkens]

There's an infinite amount of things that are impossible. I could just say it's impossible to jump to mars, then say the same thing about every other planet, moon, star or chunk of ice or rock in the universe.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I've seen someone jump to the moon. However, a dinosaur with 15 horns is likely impossible.

 

[Evo]

Impossible to make someone love you

Actually, that's quiet easy. Many people are fake in order to get someone to fall in love with them, the problem is that they can't keep up the ruse forever.

 

[lisab]

I've seen someone jump to the moon. However, a dinosaur with 15 horns is likely impossible.

How about a cow with 2 horns, jumping over the moon?

 

[Evo]

How about a cow with 2 horns, jumping over the moon?

Timing is esential because, based on all pictures I've seen, it needs to be a crescent moon so that the cow doesn't have as much distance to travel.

 

[Andre]

And the cow could wait till after moon set.

 

[sachinism]

Impossible also says I`m possible

 

[Pengwuino]

Ignoring friction.

 

[cronxeh]

Ignoring friction.

Pengwino not blowing a gasket while grading homework

 

[Office_Shredder]

Ignoring friction.

It's very easy to ignore friction. Doesn't mean it's not there of course.

There are more things that are possible than impossible: If X is impossible, then not X is possible (in fact necessary). On the other hand, if X is possible, not X might also be possible, so this is not an involution

The possibility hypothesis: Is the set of things that is possible the same cardinality as the set of things which is impossible, or are they different sizes? Alternatively, is this question unanswerable?

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

There are more things that are possible than impossible: If X is impossible, then not X is possible (in fact necessary).

I think more things are impossible than possible. For instance, it is well know that barbers can't shave themselves nor can they fail to shave themselves.

 

[Danger]

While I can't say that it's absolutely impossible, I've had no success whatsoever in trying to teach a snake to tap-dance.

 

[jobyts]

I know someone who can neither enter into the USA nor capable of sexual activities.

 

[Char. Limit]

Everything has a probability, no matter how vanishingly small, of occurring.

Nothing is impossible.

Therefore, more things are possible than impossible.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Nothing is impossible.

Obviously you've never been married.

 

[Pengwuino]

Everything has a probability, no matter how vanishingly small, of occurring.

Nothing is impossible.

Therefore, more things are possible than impossible.

Proof?

I think not.

 

[Char. Limit]

Obviously you've never been married.

Nope.

Proof?

I think not.

If x>0, is it not true that x>0?

 

[Office_Shredder]

I think more things are impossible than possible. For instance, it is well know that barbers can't shave themselves nor can they fail to shave themselves.

The barber's a woman!

not is a logical negation. So if the original statement is: It's impossible for barber's to shave themselves, then the negation is it's possible that barber's can not shave themselves. Basically, if something is impossible then it's possible that it's impossible. If you have a reverse inclusion or a surjection feel free to share it

If x>0, is it not true that x>0?

If x>0, there's a small possibility that I was referring to complex numbers the whole time and there is no field ordering available

 

[wolram]

While I can't say that it's absolutely impossible, I've had no success whatsoever in trying to teach a snake to tap-dance.

LOL, I'm sure you could animate it some how.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

So if the original statement is: It's impossible for barber's to shave themselves, then the negation is it's possible that barber's can not shave themselves.

I'm pretty sure that the negation of "It's impossible for barbers to shave themselves" is "It's possible for barbers to shave themselves". But Russell and Godel made the big bucks by claiming that both statements were themselves impossible.

 

[pallidin]

It is impossible for this thread to reach 10,000 posts.

 

[pallidin]

It's impossible for my fingernail to form into a black hole within 5 seconds as I sit here now.

 

[pallidin]

It's impossible for the entire universe to spontaneously change into a lone gecko floating in space.

 

[Astronuc]

I have a knack for doing the impossible.

 

[wolram]

It's impossible for the entire universe to spontaneously change into a lone gecko floating in space.

Have to get rid of the turtle first.

 

[cronxeh]

Have to get rid of the turtle first.

I know a good soup recipe

 

[Char. Limit]

Have to get rid of the turtle first.

This made me laugh, I'll admit.

 

[thehacker3]

Impossible to make someone love you

too easy unfortunately.. or fortunately for some

 

[thehacker3]

It's impossible for my fingernail to form into a black hole within 5 seconds as I sit here now.

Doesn't the uncertainty principle deem this as false?

 

[xxChrisxx]

Everything has a probability, no matter how vanishingly small, of occurring.

Nothing is impossible.

Therefore, more things are possible than impossible.

So impossibility is impossible?

Edit: This thread is fun.

 

[ƒ(x)]

Getting my teacher to push back the deadline on a paper?

Also, the integral of e^(x^2) with respect to x

 

[cronxeh]

Getting my teacher to push back the deadline on a paper?

Also, the integral of e^(x^2) with respect to x

Good one. I am successful with both of these, discretely.

 

[ƒ(x)]

Good one. I am successful with both of these, discretely.

how do you take the integral?

 

[thehacker3]

So impossibility is impossible?

Edit: This thread is fun.

gg


probably the most profound answer to a philosophical question I've ever seen

 

[cronxeh]

how do you take the integral?

Very, very, carefully.

 

[ƒ(x)]

Very, very, carefully.

Should i use gloves?

 

[cronxeh]

Should i use gloves?

I prefer 'bomb first, ask questions later' approach. And I have too much ethanol in my system right now to make jokes

 

[Ignorant_twit]

Quoting or replying this post without reading it, greetings from New York City by the way.

 

[cronxeh]

Quoting or replying this post without reading it, greetings from New York City by the way.

Hey are you stalking me?? I AM NYC

 

[ƒ(x)]

Hey are you stalking me?? I AM NYC

Next to Your Couch?

 

[Office_Shredder]

I'm pretty sure that the negation of "It's impossible for barbers to shave themselves" is "It's possible for barbers to shave themselves". But Russell and Godel made the big bucks by claiming that both statements were themselves impossible.

If the statement is "It's impossible for barber's to shave themselves", then the statement X is impossible means that X is: barber's can shave themselves. Not X is barber's cannot shave themselves. So the final step in the transformation is it's possible barber's cannot shave themselves. If it was impossible for them to shave themselves, then certainly it's possible that they can't shave themselves

 

[cronxeh]

Next to Your Couch?

Load universe into a cannon.. Aim at the brain.. Shoot!

 

[Char. Limit]

Beyond human limits are impossible.

Impossible for humans, maybe.

 

[Danger]

Edit: This thread is fun.

Fun?! Fun you say?! Here we are in the midst of a serious scientific discussion of something with absolutely no relevance, and you're trying to have fun?!
Banish him, I say, to the depths of GD?!

Oh, crap... never mind; we're already in GD...

 

[ƒ(x)]

Load universe into a cannon

quite possibly the ultimate bfg?

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

If the statement is "It's impossible for barber's to shave themselves", then the statement X is impossible means that X is: barber's can shave themselves. Not X is barber's cannot shave themselves. So the final step in the transformation is it's possible barber's cannot shave themselves. If it was impossible for them to shave themselves, then certainly it's possible that they can't shave themselves

The opposite of impossible is possible. The opposite of "It's impossible" is "It's possible". The opposite of "It's impossible for barbers to shave themselves" is "It's possible for barbers to shave themselves". I have no idea why you struggle so with this.

 

[wolram]

If the statement is "It's impossible for barber's to shave themselves", then the statement X is impossible means that X is: barber's can shave themselves. Not X is barber's cannot shave themselves. So the final step in the transformation is it's possible barber's cannot shave themselves. If it was impossible for them to shave themselves, then certainly it's possible that they can't shave themselves

This one is doing my head in

 

[Office_Shredder]

The opposite of impossible is possible. The opposite of "It's impossible" is "It's possible". The opposite of "It's impossible for barbers to shave themselves" is "It's possible for barbers to shave themselves". I have no idea why you struggle so with this.

Because I'm not taking the opposite of the statement "It's impossible for barbers to shave themselves". I'm taking the opposite of something which is impossible, and then saying that the new thing is possible. X is in the set of impossible things if X is impossible, but the statement "It's impossible for barbers to shave themselves" is not itself impossible (assuming it's true)