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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Well, human beings were most definitely imagining powered flight much earlier than 1860.
But to the point, I think that is just it, though: there are physical limits that are simply impossible to overcome. In a sense, imagining travel even approaching light speed is not much different than imagining the supernatural.
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But their imagination of powered flight in 1500 was similar to our imagination of faster than light travel now. Look at Davinci's drawings for example. We can imagine faster than light travel just as they imagined powered flight.
Doing it was something altogether different, and physically it's kind of weird because the pressure differential formed by the wings isn't all that is at play.
I digress- I think travelling beyond the speed of light is unrealistic, but to say it's completely impossible is the same as someone in the last millennium believing that touching the moon was also impossible, which it very much was until a few world wars taught us how to get very good at shooting exploding things at each other very quickly and precisely.