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Pick Four Persons To Replace Those On Mount Rushmore

Lachean said:
Hell yeah Norman Borlaug!
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The greatest American of the last century, but no one knows who he is.

I mean, he only saved a billion lives and revolutionized farming and society..that is all....
 
Hack at the faces until they're no longer recognizable as human faces.
 
beefheart said:
The greatest American of the last century, but no one knows who he is.

I mean, he only saved a billion lives and revolutionized farming and society..that is all....
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If it weren't for Penn and Teller's Bull****, I'd be ignorant of his existence and achievements as well.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Fonzie from Happy days, Frankie Boyle, Elmo and a phallus
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This.

I'd say: Einstein, Pasteur, George Carlin, and Darwin.

Runners-up: Salk, Hawking, Peter Singer, Norman Borlaug, Hubble, Feynman, Fermi, Sagan, Watson & Crick, Rous, Hershey & Chase, Jimmy Carr, Jim Jefferies, de Grasse Tyson, Hitchens, Lewis Black, and Louis C.K.
 
Tim the plumber said:
I prefer an international version.

1 Isaac Newton, founder of physics. The notion of the physical world being predictable.

2 Bill Gates. His intervention may well eliminate malaria, dengy and possibly AIDs. As well as tackling the inability of nations to leave poverty behind.

3 Isaac Newton. His management of the Royal mint founded the modern monetary system. It's appearance was a very significant factor in causing the industrial revolution.

4 Galileo. Inventor of the telescope. Narrowly beating Isaac Newton who invented the reflecting telescope and cat flap.
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Do you know that you have Issac Newton twice?
 
Personally, I'm content with the ones we have there, now, even the one that wasn't a surveyor. ;)

zgoldsmith23 said:
This.

I'd say: Einstein, Pasteur, George Carlin, and Darwin.

Runners-up: Salk, Hawking, Peter Singer, Norman Borlaug, Hubble, Feynman, Fermi, Sagan, Watson & Crick, Rous, Hershey & Chase, Jimmy Carr, Jim Jefferies, de Grasse Tyson, Hitchens, Lewis Black, and Louis C.K.
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I'm surprised Buckminster Fuller didn't make that list. If I had to pick 4 other Americans he'd have to be one of them.
 
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MoSurveyor said:
Personally, I'm content with the ones we have there, now, even the one that wasn't a surveyor. ;)

I'm surprised Buckminster Fuller didn't make that list. If I had to pick 4 other Americans he'd have to be one of them.
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I wasn't restricting it to Americans. ;)
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
I wasn't restricting it to Americans. ;)
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I'm not sure Fuller would make my top 4 in the world list but you didn't limit your list to 4. If my list was as long as yours, Fuller would still be in there even if it was world-wide.

On the other hand, I probably wouldn't list Hitchens even though I agree with his thoughts on many things. Dawkins, maybe, but not for his anti-religious stance. Dawkins turned behavior on it's head by looking at it from the gene's perspective - and he introduced the meme, uh, meme. ;)
 
MoSurveyor said:
I'm not sure Fuller would make my top 4 in the world list but you didn't limit your list to 4. If my list was as long as yours, Fuller would still be in there even if it was world-wide. On the other hand, I probably wouldn't list Hitchens even though I agree with his thoughts on many things.
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I would, though. Even though I REALLY don't support his seemingly imperialistic wartime policies. I think he's a good American journalist, debater, and has contributed to a broad field, plus he's a U.S. citizen! ;)
 
Larry, moe, curly, and shemp
 
Beaker, The Professor, Animal, Kermit
 
Well, I don't think Teddy belongs in that group. In terms of influence on America it should be FDR instead, the rest remaining the same. Personally I like Ike and I believe he was the perfect president for his time.
 
rhinefire said:
Choose four Americans you believe would be good figures for Mount Rushmore. They can be any body from any discipline, doctors, teachers, etc.
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James K. Polk, Neil Armstrong, Bill Gates, John Brown.
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
As in the murderer, John Brown?
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As in the martyr John Brown. Not every freedom fighter shines purely I'm well aware of what he did in Kansas. I was trying to decide between him and Thaddeus Stevens as symbols of our better revolutionary conscience.
 
Sherman123 said:
As in the martyr John Brown. Not every freedom fighter shines purely I'm well aware of what he did in Kansas. I was trying to decide between him and Thaddeus Stevens as symbols of our better revolutionary conscience.
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Couldn't do better than a convicted murderer?
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
Couldn't do better than a convicted murderer?
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I picked him because he's a personal hero of mine and someone who I think is grossly under appreciated in the United States. It's only been very recently that historians have begun to retouch his story and legacy.
 
Sheldon Cooper, Leonard Hofstander, Rajesh Koothrappali (yeah I know he's not a US citizen), Howard Wolowitz.
 
Sherman123 said:
I picked him because he's a personal hero of mine and someone who I think is grossly under appreciated in the United States. It's only been very recently that historians have begun to retouch his story and legacy.
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Might I ask, what about a murderer inspires you? Kaczynski had, what he considered, a revolutionary idea and he was a murderer.
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
Might I ask, what about a murderer inspires you? Kaczynski had, what he considered, a revolutionary idea and he was a murderer.
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That he recognized with greater clarity than perhaps anyone else the abomination of slavery, the steps that were required to begin its abolition, and that he had the courage to see his deeds through to the end. His willingness to hear a moral call and serve a higher law is laudable and something for which so many others in different times and places have received histories highest acclaim. I do not think Brown is different in that regard. I also believe his actions in some small measure redeemed our national guilt. Finally as a Jew and descendant of holocaust survivor I have enormous respect for those who are willing to take moral action regardless of the letter of the law or the consequences to themselves. Is every cause always justified? No. But that's why we get to pick which ones we honor. The revolutionary impulse however is still worth enshrining and I think John Brown is an exemplar that has been unfairly maligned.
 
Frederick Douglass: was perhaps abolitionism's most eloquent proponent.

Harriet Beecher Stowe: another advocate of the emancipation of slaves, who did through a simple book what years of argumentative prose could not.

Winfield Scott: an admirable war hero and brilliant strategist. His capture of Mexico City was commendable.

Thomas Nast: his cartoons were ahead of his time, and he was instrumental in bringing down Boss Tweed.
 
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