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Amelia Earhart, Aviation Pioneer   "Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.”   In the 19th century. It was thought by experts that going at speeds of over 30 miles an hour on railroad trains would induce suffocation. I am assuming that this was because the normal force of outward breath was less than the pressure of air rushing by at high speeds. This actually is logical in the absence of experimentation. I am assuming the only persons who had gone faster were those who had fallen from great heights, and they weren’t talking. Later it was proven to be just so much rubbish, and now we travel much faster with no ill effects other than the occasional bug on the windshield.  Sailing past the edge of the world that was thought to be flat, crossing the sound barrier, reaching the moon, and a myriad of other amazing things were once thought to be impossible, but humans surpassed their fear and reached these milestones, and lived. Humans who are less brave have a long history of predicting