Keep someone alive...
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For me I would have to say Sun Yat Sen, I would love to see how China would be different if this pro-democracy figure was alive and didn't have Chiang Kai-shek ruin the KMT/pro-democracy in China.SckizoBoy said:
After I read the Oatmeal's comic on him, I wish that he took all the years of life Edison had and kept them for himself.chadachada123 said:
Indeed, although I don't know a whole lot about his impact (other than 'freaking huge'), his legal punishment at the hands of the UK were certainly disgustingly cruel.Xanadu84 said:
That EXACT thought popped into my head. I seriously considered typing "Would it be possible to just make Edison not exist ever and give those years to Tesla instead?"Dangit2019 said:
The good news is that the land and building where Tesla's lab was located is abandoned and is being put up for auction. There's a website run much like Kickstarter that is used for non-profit events, called IndieGoGo, with an IndieGoGo campaign specifically set towards buying this land and, if possible, turning it into a goddamned museum for the late Mr. Tesla.
It's located here if you want to contribute (27 days left), and has already surpassed its goal by over $300,000! (From $850k estimate and goal for purchasing the property)
Though you may already know this if you saw the second of his two comics on Tesla.
Link: http://www.indiegogo.com/teslamuseum
True fact: There's not a single freaking Tesla museum in the country. We should change this right now. I'm just glad the land now likely won't go to the guy that wanted to build luxury condos there.
You'd rather they were alive today and something like the Eagles or Aerosmith? Creaky doddery 60-80 year olds still desperately trying to keep the magic alive while the audiences get smaller and smaller?Chased said:
I wouldn't keep anyone alive. Without all of the people who died in the very specific ways that they did I wouldn't be the person I am or possibly even exist. So for the sake of my own being I'll let the universe lie.
Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce.
Truth tellers gone waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before their time. And would probably have a field day with the current condition of the United States.
Truth tellers gone waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before their time. And would probably have a field day with the current condition of the United States.
Well, speaking of Bill Hicks...pro_family_lover said:
Ah, a man after my own heart...Thunderous Cacophony said:
Still, if there was ever a fault of Alexander, it was ambition... he was just as capricious as his kinsman Pyrrhus in the sense that he could never really sit still. That said, had his army been willing, it may have been interesting seeing him attempt to take on the western Mediterranean, though one, he undoubtedly preferred eastern aesthetics and two, as you say his Persian holdings would've disintegrated within a year of his departure.
One thing that never ceases to puzzle me, though... how did Seleucus get the lion's share of the empire afterwards? He was a relative nobody in the Somatophylakes, wasn't he??
I think that's a case of 'stayed in power' rather than continued living, because he died in exile (in the Netherlands rather ironically) in 1941...silver wolf009 said:
I know that it would be hardly world changeling but if Robert Pershing Wadlow hadn't died from his infection I would have loved to see how Mutch he would have grown
(he was the tallest man In recorded history)
(he was the tallest man In recorded history)
Kitchener?
Dunno how he would have dealt with the problems of trench warfare better than the others, but losing the UK's best regarded soldier in 1915 was a blow.
I've heard that the problems were insurmountable, though, that so many people were sent to their deaths because there wasn't a way to win, but they didn't have the option to stop trying.
Dunno how he would have dealt with the problems of trench warfare better than the others, but losing the UK's best regarded soldier in 1915 was a blow.
I've heard that the problems were insurmountable, though, that so many people were sent to their deaths because there wasn't a way to win, but they didn't have the option to stop trying.
I must have gotten my timeline mixed up in my head, as I thought he'd died only shortly before the onset of WW2. Apologies.SckizoBoy said:
Franz Marc. Incredible German painter who was killed in World War 1. He was just 36, and his art was beginning to head off in a fascinating new direction. As an artist, he had a lot more to give and a lot further to grow.
