# What Famous/Infamous Person Would you want to Meet

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 24, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-infamous-person-would-you-want-to-meet/150632 "2003-01-24T16:44:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-infamous-person-would-you-want-to-meet/150632/41 "2003-01-27T04:25:35Z")

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Sadam, Hitler, King David and Abraham.

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**Author:** ![Osbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@Osbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osbie)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-infamous-person-would-you-want-to-meet/150632/42 "2003-01-27T06:05:23Z")

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Living: Ray Bradbury, any astronaut/cosmonaut, Emma Thompson

Dead: Beethoven, John and Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin

Mythical: Indiana Jones

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**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-infamous-person-would-you-want-to-meet/150632/43 "2003-01-27T06:23:55Z")

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> \*Originally posted by TVGuy \*  
> \*\*I don’t know. From the MAN himself? Hell, I’ve never really managed to figure out that whole mess with Schroedinger and that darned cat. I think once ol’ Al got going on curved spacetime and stuff, he’d lose me pretty fast. \*\*

I’ve been told that Einstein said that if you can’t explain it to your grandma, then you don’t understand it yourself.

Schroedinger’s cat is a quantum dealie, which Feynman said _nobody_ could understand, as it is contrary to anything we have to compare it with.

I bet if you went to GQ asking for a good layperson’s book on relativity, you could get a handle on it. Some of it you’ll never understand without the math, but alot of other stuff is pretty intuitive.

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**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-infamous-person-would-you-want-to-meet/150632/44 "2003-01-27T06:29:03Z")

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Jesus first of all then Cecil Adams…Junior Wells, Polycarp(our Polycarp, not the historical one)…Fenris, Pinetop Perkins, Rick Wakeman, Bobcat.

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