Can u give examples of what people in the past has believed to be impossible, but actually finally achieved?

Question

Eg1 - no one believes that the we can go to the Moon
Eg2 - Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first man to circumnavigate the globe non-stop and single-handed.

Answer 1

The answer about evolution doesn't apply because it hasn't been proved. A lot of people still don't believe it.

Space Travel. Most people thought one would die if one exited the atmosphere.

Answer 2

1: The Senior Engineer of the British Post Office declared the the Telephone was of no use as the post Office had enough young messenger boys (to deliver messengers).

2: On viewing the first ever broadcast of television, the gathered newspaper reporters declared that it was 'interesting, but of little or no use' (and we are well on the road to proving them perfectly correct).

3: Someone declared (and I can't recall who) that 'X-rays were a nonsense."

4: Iron ships would not float.

5: Time Travel was and still is, declared as a science fictional dream &

6: Matter Transfer - the stuff of science fiction drama.

-1: On the other side of the coin, at around the turn of the last century, a senior officer of the London Patent Office declared (that he's soon be redundant as..) "everything that could be invented, has been."

But, we showed the silly ...Gent.

Sash.

Answer 3

Flight - The Wright Brothers
Sailing past the horizon without "falling off the edge of the earth"
Splitting the atom
Proving that rotten food doesn't spontaneously turn into flys, but that the rotten food draws flys to lay eggs which turn into flys. --People actually believed this until an English scientist did an experiment to disprove the long held idea.

There's lots of other things that science has proved that was thought impossible prior to their discovery.

Answer 4

The thing people use to think was the MOST impossible was flying, and we have accomplished that, right. Airplanes, helicopters fly everyday. In the future, I am sure the thing our generation believes to be impossible will be accomplished too.

Answer 5

The egyptians belived the earth to be carried around in space on the back of a turtle...Dont tell anyone...but..I believe that has been proved to be false!!

Answer 6

Cures for illnesses with antibiotics, heart surgery, face transplants, micro surgery, cloning
Electric light, telephone, computers and robots, space travel, underwater travel, hovercraft, helicopter

Answer 7

Buildings over 10 stories, 100 stories. we keep finding ways to prove them wrong and go higher and higher.
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Answer 8

People didn't believe in evolution when Darwin first suggested it

Answer 9

They used to think that if a train went more than 5mph, all the passengers would asphyxiate.

Answer 10

no believed that could clone animals.
No one believed we could build a flying machine
No one believed we could split the atom