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Everyone here saying confidently "no" hasn't kept track of science over the last several thousand years. There have been hundreds/thousands of things that have been "that is impossible" that we simply didn't have the knowledge for to be able to do.
200 years ago you would have been laughed at for thinking man could ever take to the skies, and now flying is a boring tedious thing for us.
75 years ago the idea of carrying a computer in your pocket with thousands of times the sum of the entire compute availability in the world back then would have been scoffed at, and people would have told you it's impossible. Now we use it to post on forums like this like it's nothing.
Both are examples of "it's impossible, the science says so", but that's the neat thing about science. We learn new things every day. Our thoughts change, you don't "believe" in science, you only learn new things.
So is it impossible? I think it's incredibly small-minded and dare I even say arrogant to say it's impossible. How do we know what will be discovered tomorrow, or 100 years from now, or 1000 years from now? We have absolutely no idea what will be possible then. With our current technology? Absolutely not. In 400 years? Who knows someone may be standing in line at security and see a meme making fun of us for thinking it was impossible.