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