We are no more capable of doing this than we are of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth by the end of the decade...
—We are no more capable of doing this than we are of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth by the end of the decade...—
We already had the technology. It was a matter of putting the pieces together. Henry Ford also wanted his engineers to produce a V8 and they said it couldn’t be done. But they did it.
This is many more levels of magnitude more difficult.
IOW, it is like telling Galileo that you want him to design a system capable of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth by the end of the decade. He was really smart, but not that smart.
Studying engineering,science and physics as an undergraduate ruined the whole science-fiction genre for me. It turns it into pseudo science-fantasy. Reality bites.