I'll take Richard Feynman for nine hours please.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2025
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Leonard Euler. He invented the basis for all of their works, besides Newton and Leonardo I guess.
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Seems like it will be a one sided conversation. They're all dead.
Tesla. From what I have heard, he was eccentric ( paranoid possibly? ) so it'd be fun to see if I could get him to think I'm some sort of government agent looking to stop him from doing what he does.
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I'd go for Leonardo. The others - while I understand things at a basic level - I'd likely not be able to understand most of their fields.
Maybe Tesla but I'm not sure if the conversation would end up centered around some of the neat science stuff I could grasp or pigeons with laser-eyes ...
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Curie three times. Her work was so groundbreaking that she got name recognition on the same level as the rest of them as a woman in the late 1800s. Based on my experiences with modern women in stem, I'd expect she worked way harder to get where she did than any of the rest of them and as such I'd expect her insight to hold a lot more value. I'd pick Pierre too if he was also on the list
Edit: I misread it. I read it as "you can talk to 3 of these"
Einstein – German and English
Hawking – English
Edison – English
Tesla – Serbocroatic
Curie – Polish
Newton – English
Feynman – English
da Vinci – Italian
Bohr – Danish
I‘d love to see the Tesla, Da Vinci and Einstein - all of them being incredibly smart but no one speaks the Same Language. Heck I think they’ll just switch to Latin to understand each other lol
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Hedy Lamar and Mileva Marić-Einstein
I'd happily chat with Marie Curie for 3 hours while Einstein and Bohr argue with each other in the background.
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Me: So why did you kill the elephant
Edison: AC bad
Feynman didn't even write his books
I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby
Hmmm tough choice. I doubt I would be able to understand DaVinci or Newton. I would prefer to berate Edison. I wouldn't want Curie to irradiate me. Tesla was awesome but kind of nutty. I didn't know Enough about Bohr. So probably Feyman or Einstein. I read Feyman's book so I think I would have a lot to talk about. But I think the win would go to Einstein for me. I just have to know how he came up with it all by just sort of thinking about it. I would hope he would have the best chance of explaining it in a way I could understand. Plus I speak German, so if all else fails we can just talk about spetzle.
I think Tesla. I want to ask him about a bunch of the rumors and conspiracy theories about him. I'm sure almost all of them are bogus, but I'd love to know.
My son picked Einstein. He's curious what his last words were.
Leonardo. We both are AuDHD so it'll be a semi-productive 3 hours.
i would imagine interview with leonardo could help historians quite a lot.
Leonardo.
I have a long held theory based on the history of the Mona Lisa (Being recognized as a genderswapped self portrait he literally entitled "the Happy one" carried around by the artist and gifted to his gay lover after death) that the artist was trans.
I would absolutely love to potentially verify this because the idea that one of the most famous paintings in the world has been a trans gender affirming portrait in plain sight of art historians this whole time with nobody cluing in and writing a proper paper about it - is just kind of the best.
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Feels like there is an imposter between those eight scientific greats
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As an art and anatomy person, DaVinci of course!! („ಡωಡ„) Could I even formulate a coherent sentence? Who knows! Surely he has somthing we could cut up and poke around in if words fail... Or just to see him work on whatever, Oh man, what a dream.
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Leonardo for sure! I want to know if his 4 hour cycle was true and how did he manage to do it. Did it actually helped with his studies, art and inventions?
Ok we can also talk about Mona if we have time.
How about Tesla and Edison halfway thru I hold down Edison so Tesla can give him an ass whooping.