I agree about the banana and the axe, Bill. ;-) But what makes you so sure about faster than light speed capability being impossible. What are you basing that opinion on? Where's your evidence to provide such certainty?

I bet if it was 800 years ago you'd be telling me with absolute assurance that the jet airplane, the TV, the telephone, the radio, and the alternating current electrical engine are absolutely nonsensical ideas that can never happen. Completely impossible. After all, nobody known of at that time had ever done any of them, right?

You might even be accusing me of seeing "little green demons" for just suggesting such ridiculous notions. You might be suggesting that I get a tin hat and wear it. You might be comparing me to the village idiot. You might be considering burning me at the stake in order to get me to recant my heretical assertions...

I'm so glad it's not 500 years ago. ;-)