Chillag speaks to a physicist in central Florida who figured out at least one impossibility: vampires.
Yet as I wrote at the time, what he was asserting was a physical impossibility.
This is the dissonance, the split, the impossibility of living two lives at once.
Predicting the future of Twitter's trending topics is, as of right now, an impossibility.
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It is not an impossibility, but it may strike the reader as somewhat strange.
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The idea of making the EU a top-down, bureaucratically-administered-from-Brussels political entity is becoming a practical impossibility.
But Bernanke's vision of a "savings glut" overwhelming our economy is a logical impossibility.
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The problem of course is that the notion of a "bubble" is a logical impossibility.
It turns out it was neither of those things: It was a downright impossibility.
The ubiquity of social media, and the impossibility of controlling them, is causing panic.
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The apparent impossibility of holding Indonesia's security forces to account may eventually create frustration.
AltaVista managed the near impossibility of being too early for the Web and too late for portals.
Back to the impossibility of making a major release without a combat system, and hours of combat.
The problem for debtors is that the burden of proof is on them to demonstrate impossibility, i.e.
In 1913, when the piece made its debut, it was an impossibility to imagine anything like the Rite.
But Mr Esser, a lawyer by training, has already spent five hours arguing the impossibility of his guilt.
Eighteen months ago I would have thought the idea of 140, 000 troops on that border was an impossibility.
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At some point, the political environment could change rapidly, and what was once an impossibility becomes easy, even expected.
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But replacing six or seven (or more) hats in the span of just a decade is a logistical impossibility.
But Cleverly has contractual commitments ahead that could make that fight an impossibility.
Defaulting on its debt, especially when the majority of it is held by its own citizens, is a political impossibility.
But the Marciano opinion reminds us just how difficult it is for a debtor to successfully assert the Impossibility Defense.
In other words, Chillag concludes, either we are all vampires, or there are no vampires making vampires an authentic impossibility.
It is a portfolio which applies endless strain, given the public profile and the near impossibility of meeting ever expanding demand.
Many consider the impossibility of running perpetual deficits under the gold standard as proof of its unsuitability to the modern economy.
Yet the abysmal performance of Magellan Fund in the interim is mute testimony to the impossibility of picking winners in advance.
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Finding inner strength at a time when being strong seems like such an impossibility is what can pull you through cancer.
Although it has had very little success in actual application, the Impossibility Defense is much talked about in asset protection circles.
Political realities, including the 2010 elections, made the initial presumption a happy impossibility on the way to a quiet relief rally.
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It is a technical impossibility under this peculiar circumstance to predict the liquidity balances desired by the marketplace itself and, thus, inflation.
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