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Originally posted by mike503
i disagree. unless you want to say 230,000,000 years is still "enough time" i guess there's not many things we can fathom THAT unimaginable.. but going the speed of light, turning the galaxy into a star wars / star trek type of galaxy, the ability to transport molecules from one space to another ("beam me up scotty"..)
i'd say a good model for those far-fetched ideas that could challenge your point would be right out of current movies 
man can IMAGINE a lot... do you really think man could invent a "Force" like in star wars? some sort of extra-sensory power that people can harness across the universe? that one would be quite challenging. maybe given enough radiation over time a group of people could.. or at least think they could communicate using this force..
material things, concepts, etc.. could be invented, given time (perhaps LOTS of it) but i think the true key is the things that man has imagined in movies that are not tangible..
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You sound like the person (I forget who it was) from the 19th century that said "Everything that can be invented, has been invented".
I remember when I was a boy, the majority of people believed that projecting a picture into ones living room from an invisible signal passing through the air from miles away was not within the realm of possibility.
When I was born my fathers form of transportation was a mule and buckboard.
He watched a picture projected into his living from more than a quarter of a million miles away of a man walking on the moon.
While, in my mind, I think some things may be impossible, I believe that someone in the future will fail to understand that it is impossible and will achieve the "impossible".
Thus I believe the statement to be true.