# People Who Should've Been More Famous Than They Were

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shouldve-been-more-famous-than-they-were/481150>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 13, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shouldve-been-more-famous-than-they-were/481150 "2009-01-13T21:26:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shouldve-been-more-famous-than-they-were/481150/61 "2009-01-16T09:11:01Z")

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> [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](#):
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> Would you be willing to watch your children starve to death for the same lofty goal?

If they, themselves, chose to, yes.

> [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](#):
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> Would you tell them as they were dying how big an honor it was since they would be helping avoid hypothetical future suffering for 10 billion people who don’t exist yet and whom they will never meet?

I do things everyday, some of which involve hardship, to make the world better for generations of people I will never meet. Any good human being should.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shouldve-been-more-famous-than-they-were/481150/62 "2009-01-16T09:38:42Z")

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> [@Loach](#):
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> My father found it amusing that this famous pilot was named bobwhite.

He didn’t quail from danger, that’s for sure!

(Now you’ve made me remember spitting out shot or digging it out with a fork. Good meat, though.)

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**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shouldve-been-more-famous-than-they-were/481150/63 "2009-01-16T16:23:48Z")

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French aviator and creator of fanciful automobiles, Gabriel Voisin, who was the first man to actually taxi and take off from the ground in an airplane.

The Wrights and others before Voisin flung their creations off cliffs to get’em into the air.

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