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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Tesla. Gotta know about the death ray.

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[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

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

Skłodowska-Curie also spoke Russian, French, English and likely German.

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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Feel like I would just disappoint 3 different people. What a cruel thing to bring someone back from the dead for.

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[–] richardmtanguay@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

Seems like it will be a one sided conversation. They're all dead.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Who's gonna tell Tesla what his name stands for now?

[–] Jela@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

Tesla would be my answer just to help him sue Musk for using his namesake. I'm petty like that though..

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Leonard Euler. He invented the basis for all of their works, besides Newton and Leonardo I guess.

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[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

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

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Hawkings, how was Epstein island?

[–] garlicandonions@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

Feynman because at least he'd talk on my level

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.

[–] DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] neuroneiro@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Everyone but that guy in the bottom right.

What a Bohr…

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Feynman, he's the one you can drink a beer with.

Though if I spoke German I would show up for Einsteins last 3 hours.

[–] Zaptosis@monero.town 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Newton, because he was a revolutionary thinker for his time & it would be most fulfilling to just show him the wonders of the modern world & see the excitement in his eyes. Their all way to smart for me to gain any scientific knowledge of value that others hadn't already, so might as well make Newtons day & show him some cool stuff.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 5 points 5 days ago

Newton had massive social adjustment issues and deep religious convictions. I'm not so sure he would react well to the modern world.

[–] mstrk@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think Feynman would be interesting based on the videos of him I've seen. It probably also aligns best with where my knowledge is. Einstein is probably too theoretical and too much math I don't know (or have long forgotten in the decades since I learnt it).

I have zero Polish and my French is mostly forgotten so Curie is out, though she would be my second choice of those listed (I don't recall if she spoke English off-hand).

But we have so many "quotes" from Einstein. It would be fun to go one by one asking if he really said that.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why does only "Leonardo" get the first name

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How about Tesla and Edison halfway thru I hold down Edison so Tesla can give him an ass whooping.

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