Right, and finding another way is how the "can do" person wins over the "can't" naysayers. It's like saying Jules Verne's cannon to the moon is impossible... which is true, but not really the point, since rocket travel to the moon has been proven.
My point is that you can make any prediction 'come true' if you redefine enough words in it. This is a dumb parlor trick and tells us nothing about how people of the past actually thought.
