Question: If you could meet anybody (alive or dead) who would you want to meet?

Rosanna Tilbrook answered on 12 Mar 2019: last edited 14 Mar 2019 10:51 am

Ooh, this is a tough one! Maybe Tycho Brahe, who was an astronomer in the 1500s whose work led to some really fundamental laws about how planets move- he worked on supernovae and comets too. He was also absolutely mad- for example, he had a metal nose as his own one was chopped off in a fight which was apparently over who was the best mathematician of all time! He also supposedly had a pet moose who developed a taste for beer, and died after getting drunk and falling down the stairs (RIP Mr. Moose). Even Tycho’s own death was weird- he was at a meal with the Danish royal family, and it was considered rude to get up from the table before the King, so he held his wee in for hours and died from a burst bladder 🙁

There’s loads of cool people I’d love to meet though- maybe an early astronomer such as Ptolemy or Archimedes, just to give them the opportunity to show them what we know now! It would be so amazing!