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by AnimalMuppet 2442 days ago
You can never say never. But you can often say "not at all likely".
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0.000001% odds are "unlikely", but across a sufficiently large number of attempts by a sufficiently large number of scientists over a sufficiently large number of years, something great is bound to be discovered.
Sure. The odds of any particular "wouldn't it be cool" great thing are fairly low, though.