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In the spirit of the SpaceX launch today I have gone back in my archives to November of 2014…

I was on CNN.com yesterday and noticed a story about how we – we being us humans – landed a robot on a comet.

Wow! How freakin exciting is that!?

Just think, a spacecraft blasted off from the earth, took a few trips around the moon and then shot around Mars to meet up with a comet and then dropped a robot on top of it! And I do mean drop – we couldn’t steer the thing…we just dropped it and sort of hoped it would land where it was supposed to on the comet. It did have a gyroscope or something on it to keep it stabilized but if fell to the surface of the comet…

…and then tweeted.

Yes…the robot tweeted that it landed.

What!!?? Wow again!!!

Did you ever think you’d ever hear that in a sentence…”a robot fell to the surface of a comet and then tweeted out that it landed!”

I am amazed

Then…it shot out some some harpons – or was supposed to – to help it hold on to the comet but they didn’t fire the way they were supposed to and the robot tweeted out – “my harpons didn’t fire I don’t know why” or something like that.

I am truly amazed

Just think…50 years ago we barely put a man in space and now we’re landing a tweeting robot on a comet after it flew 6.4 billion miles!

And we once thought flight was impossible.

I spoke to my Grandmother once about this. She was born in 1901 and passed away in 1996. Before she passed I talked with her about everything she had seen in her lifetime. Cars barely were around, flight wasn’t possible and the thought of even traveling in space let alone landing a man on the moon or flying a shuttle into space and back again or landing a tweeting robot on a comet were thought to be impossible if they were even thought of at all!

And yet now these things seem almost common place. When we landed on the moon it was a big media event. My Dad even took pictures of the tv as they broadcasted the landing. I was in high school when the space shuttle first came back to earth and classes were canceled so we could all watch.

Now…a robot landing on a comet barely makes front page news. It is common place.

What once was impossible is now common.

What is your impossible that you want to make possible?