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var coslog_impossible = new Array();
coslog_impossible.ID = "coslog_impossible";
coslog_impossible.ID_WB = 23581559;
coslog_impossible.navsectionID = "3033054"
coslog_impossible.sPubDate = "3/12/2008 1:59:22 AM GMT";
coslog_impossible.quiztype = 1;
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coslog_impossible.appHeader = "Just how impossible is it?";
coslog_impossible.appDeck = new Array("In the book \"Physics of the Impossible,\" physicist Michio Kaku describes three kinds of impossible technologies. Class I impossibilities don't contradict the known laws of physics and may become possible within a century, Class II impossibilities are on the very edge of our scientific understanding and might become possible after thousands or millions of years, and Class III impossibilities contradict the known laws of physics. Classify the following technologies and find out how they rate in Kaku's book:","Thanks for taking the quiz. <a href=\"http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/11/757361.aspx\">Cosmic Log</a> has more about \"Physics of the Impossible.\" Compare your ratings with Michio Kaku's:");
coslog_impossible.sCorrect = "You agree with Kaku.";
coslog_impossible.sIncorrect = "You disagree with Kaku.";
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coslog_impossible[1] = new Array();
coslog_impossible[1][0] = new Array("Ray guns and lightsabers.");
coslog_impossible[1].answer = "Class I impossibility: Could become possible in the near future or perhaps within a century.";
coslog_impossible[1][1] = new Array("Class I",'',1);
coslog_impossible[1][2] = new Array("Class II",'',0);
coslog_impossible[1][3] = new Array("Class III",'',0);

coslog_impossible[2] = new Array();
coslog_impossible[2][0] = new Array("Teleporting a human being.");
coslog_impossible[2].answer = "Class II impossibility: Allowed by the laws of physics, but it may take many centuries - assuming it is possible at all.";
coslog_impossible[2][1] = new Array("Class I",'',0);
coslog_impossible[2][2] = new Array("Class II",'',1);
coslog_impossible[2][3] = new Array("Class III",'',0);

coslog_impossible[3] = new Array();
coslog_impossible[3][0] = new Array("Robots that may be as smart or smarter than people.");
coslog_impossible[3].answer = "Class I impossibility: If we avoid the collapse of Moore's Law and the common-sense problem, this could come to pass late in the 21st century.";
coslog_impossible[3][1] = new Array("Class I",'',1);
coslog_impossible[3][2] = new Array("Class II",'',0);
coslog_impossible[3][3] = new Array("Class III",'',0);

coslog_impossible[4] = new Array();
coslog_impossible[4][0] = new Array("Seeing the future.");
coslog_impossible[4].answer = "Class III impossibility: Precognition is ruled out by Newtonian physics. The rule of cause and effect is never violated.";
coslog_impossible[4][1] = new Array("Class I",'',0);
coslog_impossible[4][2] = new Array("Class II",'',0);
coslog_impossible[4][3] = new Array("Class III",'',1);

coslog_impossible[5] = new Array();
coslog_impossible[5][0] = new Array("Contact with extraterrestrial life.");
coslog_impossible[5].answer = "Class I impossibility: Given rapid advances in SETI and extrasolar planet discovery, such contact may occur within this century - assuming it exists in our vicinity.";
coslog_impossible[5][1] = new Array("Class I",'',1);
coslog_impossible[5][2] = new Array("Class II",'',0);
coslog_impossible[5][3] = new Array("Class III",'',0);

coslog_impossible[6] = new Array();
coslog_impossible[6][0] = new Array("Detection of parallel universes.");
coslog_impossible[6].answer = "Class II impossibility: Not in violation of the laws of physics, but would require thousands or millions of years to achieve.";
coslog_impossible[6][1] = new Array("Class I",'',0);
coslog_impossible[6][2] = new Array("Class II",'',1);
coslog_impossible[6][3] = new Array("Class III",'',0);


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