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Originally Posted by Longdogs ->
Neil Armstrong. I would ask him to describe the feeling of being the first person to walk on the Moon.
Yes, next best thing to being on the moon
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Michael Faraday or Johannes Kepler. Faraday because he was the inventor of the electric motor and the first to realise the importance of electromagnetic waves - light being one such wave.
Kepler because he poked the Catholic Church in the eye by confirming that the planets actually went around the sun and not around the Earth. The so-called geo-centric universe proposed by Ptolemy championed by the Catholic hierarchy kept civilisation in the dark ages for centuries.
Interesting choice
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12-11-2020, 02:37 PM
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Charles Darwin.
Good choice
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There's only one.

About 1500 odd years ago.

Give me a loaded Uzi or Desert Eagle and less than a minute alone with him.
Hmm... that was predicted in the Bible - can’t change destiny
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12-11-2020, 02:38 PM
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Oliver Cromwell for me. He fascinates me.

I love going to the ‘Ye Olde Reine Deer lnn’ in Banbury and sitting in the Globe Room where he plotted battles during the English Civil War.

One of those was the battle of Edge Hill, where l love visiting too.
I’ll have to look him up
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12-11-2020, 02:39 PM
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None of um, they all cut and run, and left the followers with a dilemma which, folks could well do without.
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12-11-2020, 02:40 PM
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A man? Jesus Christ. Because he da man!..And don't bite!..I'm not even religious. And a woman?..Audrey Hepburn.
He was my choice as well
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12-11-2020, 02:41 PM
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I would love to go back say 500 years and have a good look around not meeting anyone in particular just have a good nosey around....i would need to be invisible though. If it had to be a person though I wouldn't mind meeting Jesus I bet he would laugh at the impact he made on the world .
He was my choice as well
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12-11-2020, 02:42 PM
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That made me laugh.......

Adolph Hitler to ask him Why?

Oh, and Nikola Tesla....The bloke who invented the AC electric motor....

And my Dad......There's so much I should have said...
No to Hitler, Maybe to Tesla and a definite yes to your dad. I miss my dad everyday
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12-11-2020, 02:43 PM
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Prince Philip asked him that in "The Crown", and was disappointed.....
that's coz he is a knobhead.
 
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