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impossible things

a list of things that are tentatively impossible.

  1. eat the sun
  2. disprove a true theorem
  3. walk through your desk in the next 5 minutes
  4. breathe in the vacuum of space
  5. purchase a quantum computer tomorrow
  6. ride a tiger to work
  7. drive a boat around the city instead of a car
  8. work with movie characters instead of real people
  9. eat 17 enchilladas right now
  10. walk upside down on the roof
  11. choose to not obey gravity for a week
  12. temporarily become a bag
  13. listen to music with a t-shirt (this suggests the invention of a vibrating t-shirt)
  14. compile an uncompilable program
  15. make a 1 and a 0 mean the same thing, then continue to operate a computer successfully
  16. obtain solar power from the sun without seeing the sun (i call it "moonar power".)
  17. dance when you have no legs
  18. ride a bike without a bike
  19. wake up in two places at once
  20. become invisible at will
  21. wear 5 hats at once and don't look insane
  22. levitate 10 ft in the air surrounded by a ball of fire, and be relaxed about it
  23. travel back in time 5 minutes
  24. travel forward in time 10 minutes in only 5 minutes for everyone else
  25. combine the last two operations for no net effect (impossible, but observably the same as a possible thing.)
  26. walk upwards without stairs
  27. arbitrarily construct stairs where you could like them (out of concrete or wood.)
  28. make a growing tree out of concrete
  29. fall from 8000 ft unaided and survive
  30. fall from 888**8 ft unaided and survive
  31. write down 8000 impossible things
  32. build an underwater house entirely out of water
  33. build a land-based house entirely out of water
  34. build a space-based house entirely out of water
  35. design a visible material that has no colour
  36. temporarily swap lives with another person, from a consciousness point of view (much like the movie.)
  37. visit an alien planet and eat some food there
  38. browse the alien internet
  39. appreciate alien art
  40. covert a chair into a different type of chair by manipulating the space around the chair; never touching the chair
  41. "unlearn" something (i think this is possible actually, by say practicing that thing in several wrong ways.)
  42. figure out what the universe is inside of
  43. read a book from back to front and understand it entirely in only one pass
  44. practice soccer for 1 year after the age of 25 (having never played before) and join aston villa
  45. remove banks entirely from the planet; see what happens
  46. write a program that allows you to simulate society perfectly without the ethical dilemmas of how you treat the simulants.
  47. write down electronic music using words.
  48. build some sort of sleep robot that sleeps for you.
  49. invent a non-trivial language that has no letters or words.
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