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Why impossible? There are too many solved problems that take years of learning to understand, more to understand the solution, and history of humankind's effort to solve. You don't expect to judge their impossibility without knowing your way around this particular problem space. Apparent impossibility has little power. The problem needs to be solved, so I start drawing the map, made of the same map-stuff that determined asymmetric cryptography and motorcycles. There is no escaping the intermediary of understanding. When seeking understanding rather than impossible, there is no need to panic. Fake progress? The same problem with impossible dreams.