Is it really so unthinkable that the efforts of a voluntary multitude could produce a Google-esque collection of data, mapping the virtual and real worlds and recording their history?
Much later, he tells the boy what he fears happened: as the wolves closed in on the wagon, Aanakwad may have had to make an unthinkable choice in an effort to save herself and her newborn.
He said that further measures would be "unthinkable" without a clear effort on the part of Greece to sort out its problems, while adding that "when this is the case, then it is possible to apply external help measures".
Romney tried to laugh the question off as some sort of unthinkable situation, but this effort is already underway.
Chu has uttered the politically unthinkable: that his own administration's efforts to halt global warming might not be enough to avert a catastrophe.
Should the unthinkable happen, and a grassroots campaign by Jeff Buckley fans disrupt Simon Cowell's efforts to again secure a Christmas number one, BBC Radio 1 will be forced to deal with a tricky issue of protocol.
Richard Nixon raised a then unthinkable $60 million for his 1972 reelection, an effort, of course, that led to the post-Watergate establishment of the FEC to enforce campaign contribution limits.
But in recent months, details have begun to emerge, revealing efforts that would have been unthinkable five years ago.
In one final effort to prevent what was once unthinkable from becoming inevitable, the Treasury officials again pressed S.& P. to reconsider.
Building on the work of the 16 NATO members with troops in Iraq, and on the recent UN Security Council resolution, NATO will lend to America's salvage efforts a moral support that was unthinkable before.
The candidates have been attacking the war effort with language that would have been unthinkable even two weeks ago.
