They also would have called you crazy for saying you wanted to turn lead into gold with alchemy. Fact is, most of the time the people who say something can't be done are right.

Nitpick: we can actually transmute, either by fusion or fission. Sure it's not economically effective, but then neither was Apollo.

Yeah but they don't matter. All the trying was worth it, because I can fly halfway around the Earth for a few hundred bucks now. If in a different world I got gold out of lead but no airplanes, it would be fun too, but in a different way.

If the no-sayers really won and nobody tried, we would have neither.

> They also would have called you crazy for saying you wanted to turn lead into gold with alchemy.

Which is doable but exceptionally expensive.

Not a strong argument against the ship unless you're calling it a waste of money.