Defending low-lying cities against a rising sea level is difficult and expensive, and it is impossible to adapt to ocean acidification.
Donald Macleod tells the troubled story of Prokofiev's operatic masterpiece - an adaptation of a novel long considered impossible to adapt for the stage: Tolstoy's War and Peace.
It was a decent idea but directionally incorrect, it was hugely overfunded, the burn rate was taken to levels way beyond reason, and it became impossible to adapt the business in a financially viable manner...
Many a case has also been made for Neuromancer, the 1984 William Gibson novel which popularised terms such as cyberspace and the matrix, being impossible to adapt for the big screen.
The startup went all-in on connected luggage, and ultimately found it impossible to adapt when battery packs were no longer allowed on flights.
"I've had two falls and damaged my left stump so I'm having medical care for that at the moment". Mr Adams said an occupational therapist visited his home in Camborne after the operation and decided it was impossible to adapt for a wheelchair user.
Tom Adams, 54, had a second leg amputation in December and was told his home was impossible to adapt for a wheelchair user.
There are a number of climate change impacts, particularly in the most vulnerable and poorest countries, that will be difficult or impossible to adapt to.
For example we've already been asked if there would be a 'flatscreen' version of VERSUS later on, and we really hope that VERSUS will be impossible to adapt on a screen, because of the degree with which we'll take into account the Satosphere's space and context.
"Having spent 10 years cursing on unreliable technology that was almost impossible to adapt to our needs, we had to put our money where our mouth was and create a complete new core banking engine from scratch".
