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10 Jul 2014, 7:35 pm

It's the age old question: if you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would you pick and why?

I would pick Marie Curie because she was super awesome and it would be great to see her drive/ enthusiasm at work.


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10 Jul 2014, 7:39 pm

No scientists who work personally in labs which stock biological, chemical or nuclear stuff and things. After all, this IS a dinner. 'Nuff said.

Thomas Paine. Easy. Thomas Jefferson as runner up.


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10 Jul 2014, 7:47 pm

Oh where's your sense of adventure? :lol: I figured I would die from radation poisoning after hanging with her anyway (hopefully she'd let me check out her lab and hang awhile) 8) .... Wonder if she was on the spectrum...


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10 Jul 2014, 8:21 pm

ghandi - i admire his nonviolent resistance and think i would have liked him as a person as well.



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10 Jul 2014, 8:39 pm

cathylynn wrote:
ghandi - i admire his nonviolent resistance and think i would have liked him as a person as well.


ditto here. also van gogh, i would love to talk to him about his work and his philosophy on art and life--and to thank him.



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10 Jul 2014, 9:14 pm

The unknown being that discovered fire.

...but that was a member of our ancestor species so.

If that doesn't count then I'd say Nikola Tesla.



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10 Jul 2014, 9:23 pm

um, maybe hitler, if he agreed to keep his racism out of the conversations.

laetitia sadier is also on the list.


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10 Jul 2014, 10:00 pm

Dietrich Bonhoeffer - I think we'd get along great and would have many things to talk about, music, theology, and ethics for starters. He was also good looking, IMO.



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10 Jul 2014, 10:45 pm

Pearl Buck, an amazing woman and writer


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10 Jul 2014, 11:45 pm

Jesus Christ. I have way too many questions for that fella!



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11 Jul 2014, 2:19 am

nyxjord wrote:
It's the age old question: if you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would you pick and why?

Mine would be Carl Sagan.
I could listen to his knowledge for hours.
My only contribution would be endless questions.

..btw nyxjord, your signature quote of Sagan's is wonderful.
I think the same thing of the cave wall paintings in France or the petroglyphs in the southwest US.
..they too are speaking silently and clearly to me.


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11 Jul 2014, 4:22 am

Janis Joplin. I just want to know why?


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11 Jul 2014, 4:30 am

Einstein or Niels Bohr

It would be totally awsome to get their opinions on my thought regarding my pupil being a type of black hole 8)



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11 Jul 2014, 7:17 am

'm not sure who it would be at the moment, but probably someone alive. I can't imagine dinner with a dead person would all that much fun. (Sorry, I had to get bad joke out of me.)


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11 Jul 2014, 7:29 am

O.k... if Jesus Christ is not available, I am going to go with Muhammad. I have questions for that fella too. Or maybe both of them could go to dinner with me, and hash it out. They can have an arguement about who was really the last supreme being or something.



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11 Jul 2014, 7:36 am

I might like enjoy sitting down with da Vinci for a an evening -- so many potential topics for discussion.


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