came along later on in that decade. Has anybody ever seen those George Jetson tail fin cars in a museum or online somewhere? I mean, they're stunning. They're gorgeous actually. A little impractical , but they're great. The early '60s, the Mustang came along and then muscle cars with the Pontiac GTO and you had these crazy sort of scenes where in Chicago therewas an industrial park where the kids used to gather at night and race their GTOs and their Chevy SS Super Sports and all that against each other. And the fire department got so
us find so impractical so I'm in my 30s and I've I've seen grammar change substantially in the time from when I learned how toread till now but I can't really think of too many instances where spelling at least the spelling that's accepted by
But there was a problem, even though Sundback had a new design and a patent, manufacturing a zipper like this in the 1910s was very impractical . Each of the tiny teeth needed to be precisely shaped for the fastener to work, but at the time, there were simply no tools around that could do this reliably.
has in overcoming barriers between it and its goal. Now, if it were to be that, now, this is, I think, a totally doable but impractical and very expensive experiment. But you could imagine setting up a scenario where the bacteria were blocked from becoming more complex. And you can ask if they would try to find ways around it, or whether their goals are actually metabolic. And as long as those goals are met, they're not going to actually get around your barrier.
opening reopening the deal, but there are a lot of things this far out of the original deal that we should renegotiate. Of course, opposition parties say that's impractical , and it will drag us back into the Brexit debates of of olden days. And Ben, when you look at that dossier that Reform have put out today that Joe was talking about, and you look at the
to get done in the settlement. So just really impractical . I'll point out that an astrobiologist named Charles Cockell, who writes a lot about liberty, and design, and space settlements, he's even designed what he calls a humane but effective space
Stay tuned, stay tuned. And it was so impractical .
And I ask him how his life is going. It's very impractical to argue the way that we're arguing, because politics are supposed to be the art of persuasion.
in fact, I asked him, do you pay extra insurance? It's a very impractical car.
The thesis is not that everyone's going to live in a skyscraper in New York City. That's impractical . That's not the way most people in this country want to live. So the thesis is more one of kind of urbanism everywhere.
And I haven't finished the show, so maybe there's something like this in a later episode, but showing somebody. Picking up something impractically heavy, or having an occasional object not fall as fast as you would expect, or anything like that, because it's a little offputting for them to be talking about how it's gravity, and then everything's like heavy.
What is the universe? And so that idealism and that almost impractical nature I think was true of that era of AI researchers. And you read about the Stanford lab, right?
you're going to get pickpocketed here so be careful uh but all the police were rolling around on Segways and I I thought that that was wildly impractical oh okay you got to get up on then bail off and Tackle somebody I I mean that that's the that's the crappiest police chase ever isn't it or the most amazing some guy running down
So that really helped me hone things. And it's a completely absurd impractical idea I had that people would be willing to eat that on a paper plate in their lap during their lunch time.
But I actually decided on my 26th birthday to start my own company. I call it "Joie de Vivre" which is a very impractical name for a company, hard to spell, hard to pronounce. Most people in America don't know what it means. Even if they did know what it means they wouldn't know how to live it. But it's about joy of life and I said that's
Well, that's impractical . That means you're doubling your talent in a day, which is just not possible, not feasible.
But all of this seems to be very impractical to me.
a kind of happy medium between two essentially impractical and implausible extremes that have been the major source of all the pessimism that
There were always issues with either shielding or sensitivity or dynamic range that made them impractical for detecting heartbeats out in the field.
I don't know, almost not important or impractical .
And in fact, that would be impractical , because for example, you would never, say, get married to somebody then, right?
me over moving to another medium even though that may be kind of Impractical because I love the idea of rewarding
just no one can wear it right at what point do it become impractical yeah that's that's definitely the tradeoff um we try and strike a balance with each of
Another surefire way, which is pretty impractical for most bakers, but it's to mill your own flour.
favorite arguments happens to be this idea that you know we're wasting too much money on copy editors and if English was more predictable like German then we could save save a few bucks so as un as impractical really if if not outlandish as this idea might seem you know rewriting the English spelling code so that it fits this this much more predictable
reach the nearest star with our most powerful rocket. Very impractical . You
their version of business success and I found them quite uh, impractical at times. And myself, I'm a, you know, I've
But I-- Actually, I actually just met Joe from "Impractical Jokers," and he said he has 24 dogs.
That was impossible until 20 years ago-- not impossible, but impractical .
with the brilliant idea of being a shop for shoplifters um which we decided ultimately was a little bit impractical
Of course there have been other cases where we've gone from something being so unsafe and so impractical to being very practical.
You have to take them all out of there when you break it in the winter which can be slightly impractical .
Saccharin is so sweet that the amount of saccharin that you need to put in a cup of coffee is impractically small, like it would
Discoveries like this one remind us why scientific curiosity, especially the kind that can seem obscure or impractical , why it matters so deeply.
My goodness. So for him to actually get promoted in 1901 to become an officer, from signing up for a volunteer army, seemed impractical .
Whereas, there's also another point, which is having large armies, it's actually inherently impractical and inefficient because the larger army, the more people you've got
That's mostly how we handle crime here on Earth. But regardless of how you feel about the effectiveness of imprisonment as a response to crime on Earth, it's actually extremely impractical in space. So picture it. This is the first crime committed on Mars.
contracted by gravity, like how the temperature and pressure will relate to each other as the sphere of soup collapses, which is as impractical a question as there is.
I like contractualism more, because Kantian thought, to me, is horribly impractical .
And since doing that once a year is a bad enough exercise, every two months is not only impractical .
That's true. I majored in literature and music, and was heavily criticized by a lot of Asian parents for being highly impractical .
And we don't have the social systems to run that many more people through the schools, so that's impractical .
You don't see so much of that anymore just because the pricing for export has become very high, so it becomes impractical to sell it outside of China.
It's really great. But his political thing, it's impractical .
I mean that's a holiday meal, but it's a ritual that is so long, takes so long, it's impractical in the modern day business rhythms.
So they made a great instrument, marketed it poorly, made it expensive, made it impractical because of the key, and put it out on the market.
Much like Billy True's three saxophones with one player, this has an innovation that is extraordinary, but is unfortunately impractical .
And the word "theories" gets a bum wrap with managers, because the word "theory" is associated with the word "theoretical," which connotes impractical .
Well actually, when I decided that I was going to make music, it was totally impractical .
'I know. I'm working on it.' Jeeves had a mission, but he wasn't so impractical or unkind to not let it drop for the moment.