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by lovich 444 days ago
Ok, I’ll retract my statement from “impossible” to “what the layman would refer to as impossible when you take into account resource constraints”
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The layman, almost by definition, would refer to most things as impossible until he sees them done; then he takes them for granted because he has no idea how difficult they were. His opinion about the difficulty or resource requirements of any feat is worthless.
I disagree