spaceflight, #Clarke's three laws
• When a distinguished but elderly #scientist 👨🔬 states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are very probably #wrong.
• The only way of discovering the #limits of the #possible is to venture a little way past them into the #impossible.
• Any sufficiently #advanced #technology is indistinguishable from #magic.Isaac #Asimov 📆1959
"It is only afterward that a #new #idea seems #reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems #unreasonable" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_AsimovPicture : Arthur C. #Clarke 📆 1965, on one of the sets of 2001: A #SpaceOdyssey https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_C._Clarke_1965.jpg