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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Davinci for sure because of the breadth of genius and imagination seems more approachable to a casual conversation, plus history has less on him.

Other's have so much depth in their fields that I wouldn't be able to converse intelligently on anything they are famous for. Having a chat with Feynman would be my second choice because his talks to laymen audiences are quite good.

A pint or five with either would be fun.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't speak medieval Italian so sadly he's off my list

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Presumably if we figured out how to bring back the dead and thoroughly decomposed, we could solve the language barrier.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Babel fish, you say?

    But actually I intended to indicate something more here... Almost all of these will have spoken English and it's a bit slanted y'know? I'd take Aristotle lol

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I thought about him, but IIRC he was a bit of a jerk.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah but imagine if he were personally a jerk to you

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