So, you could meet one person in history

I vacillate back and forth between possible candidates...

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Caltech engineer Mory Gharib was poring over the digitized notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci one day, looking for sketches of flow visualization to share with his graduate students for inspiration. That's when he noticed several small sketches of triangles, whose geometry seemed to be determined by grains of sand poured out from a jar. Further investigation revealed that Leonardo was attempting to study the nature of gravity, and the little triangles were his attempt to draw an equivalence between gravity and acceleration—centuries before Albert Einstein would demonstrate this equivalence with his general theory of relativity. Gharib was even able to re-create a modern version of the experiment.

Gharib and his collaborators described their discovery in a new paper published in the journal Leonardo, noting that, by modern calculations, Leonardo's model produced a value for the gravitational constant (G) to around 97 percent accuracy. What makes this finding even more astonishing is that Leonardo did all this without a means of accurate timekeeping and without the benefit of calculus, which Isaac Newton invented in order to develop his law of universal gravitation in the 1660s.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/leonardo-noted-link-between-gravity-and-acceleration-centuries-before-einstein/

Jesus. ‘You are not going to believe this bro, but there have been millions killed in your name. Some eat crackers and drink wine thinking it’s your body and blood! Plus wait til you see the Broadway play about you!’

Saint Francis of Assisi

I would like to have dinner with Robin Williams, Chris Farley and John Candy all at the same table. I would just sit back and enjoy!

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Jesus. ‘You are not going to believe this bro, but there have been millions killed in your name. Some eat crackers and drink wine thinking it’s your body and blood! Plus wait til you see the Broadway play about you!’
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I think, in this area, I would rather meet Adam. You know, it's either the one in Genisis, or it's just whatever was the primeval human. I'd learn a lot just by arriving on the scene seeing where and what I was arriving into before i even met anyone at all. Of course, if our beginnings were something more off the hook like in 2001 a Space Odyssey then who knows. All would be fascinating.

Although I've thought before I might want to meet a one of the originators of some great movement, I might as well go back to the beginnings of humanity as that should clear up quite a bit if I'm going to pursue that type of inquiry.

Everybody is ignoring the issue of language and the ability to communicate. If that's the groundrule then, hey, okay , , , but just saying that Adam and Jesus are going to be hard to communicate with.

I feel like anyone who met Jesus would be somewhat disappointed. It would be like just talking to some random Middle Eastern dude and every once in a while he might say something pseudo-philosophical that may or may not have anything to do with modern-day Christianity since everything he supposedly said was written down decades if not centuries after his death.

I mean, it would still be kind of cool to meet someone from that time period, but I would be really surprised if he had anything in common with the "20th-century-Euro-Jesus" a lot of people picture in their minds.

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Everybody is ignoring the issue of language and the ability to communicate. If that's the groundrule then, hey, okay , , , but just saying that Adam and Jesus are going to be hard to communicate with.
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Even when he was alive, Jesus had the gift of tongues. If we can ignore that the person is long dead, I think we can ignore the language barrier. For arguments sake, let us assume the lunch takes place in Cynosure, perhaps at Mundens.

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I feel like anyone who met Jesus would be somewhat disappointed. It would be like just talking to some random Middle Eastern dude and every once in a while he might say something pseudo-philosophical that may or may not have anything to do with modern-day Christianity since everything he supposedly said was written down decades if not centuries after his death.

I mean, it would still be kind of cool to meet someone from that time period, but I would be really surprised if he had anything in common with the "20th-century-Euro-Jesus" a lot of people picture in their minds.
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Well, everything noteworthy that Jesus said didn't fill one half of one book, so they had to add filler to the new testament like the backstory in Nazareth and some epilogues.

I would like to live long enough to meet the 55th US president.

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Everybody is ignoring the issue of language and the ability to communicate. If that's the groundrule then, hey, okay , , , but just saying that Adam and Jesus are going to be hard to communicate with.
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Even when he was alive, Jesus had the gift of tongues. If we can ignore that the person is long dead, I think we can ignore the language barrier. For arguments sake, let us assume the lunch takes place in Cynosure, perhaps at Mundens.
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Jesus, how's it feel knowing you and your cohorts pulled off the biggest most epic con of all time? Now let's talk about religious wars. We can get to the good things religion has done later.

FYI your mother wasn't a Virgin, but you probably already know that. Speaking of virgins, have you heard the one about the 3 priests, 3 young boys, and a fishing trip? It's a good one.

How about the priest and a rabbi sitting at the playground bench when a young boy walks by?

Anyways, now that we are good friends any chance of a free pass into heaven, you know, just in case? At least give me some lottery numbers if you are legit.

Oh, I was wondering...The Wizard sold his sole for like a dollar, is he totally F'd?

Is gambling a sin? Dumb question I know... of course, it is.