Who is the Greatest Genius Alive Today?

[wanderer99]

[MarkRae]

Prof Hawking

[12thPaladin]

No arguments with that Mark.

[ELVIS68]

Ronnie Osullivan

[joeluke]

Peter Andre?

[MarkRae]

Whoever invented the Thermos flask.

You put something cold in it - it stays cold.
You put something hot in it - it stays hot.

How the hell does it know...?

[poodicat]

As i said Simon Cowell

[birdie1971]

Great question and one this is very hard to answer.

Geniuses..., Genii..., whatever... more than one Genius are hard to spot because they're often not recognised as a Genius while they're alive. There may well be [more than one Genius] alive today but we might not find out until several decades have passed.

Stephen Hawking is one of the most brilliant and well known physicists in the world today and I for one am a great admirer of his. But is he a genius in the truest sense of the word? Stephen Hawking is brilliant – of that there is no doubt.

But compare him to Newton. Isaac Newton was not only brilliant - his mathematical proofs and theories advanced both physics and the whole of science in such a way as to revolutionise the way that science was done. His influence is still felt today. That, to me at least, is the definition of genius – an individual who fundamentally changes existing paradigms.

Similarly Einstein.


Stephen Hawking – a genius? Not sure. Cleverer than me? Oh yes. By several orders of magnitude.

[Canary42]

Me

[birdie1971]

Newton, Kepler, Edison, Kelvin, Canary42, Einstein, Brunel, Darwin..


All geniuses's... genii...




All very clever indeed.

[ELVIS68]

I`ll raise

Rod Hull

[birdie1971]

Don't be ridiculous.

Bob Carolgees was an idiot.


However, Spit-The-Dog is another matter entirely.

[birdie1971]

Rob Hull can't have been that clever. He knowingly took an aggressive flightless bird onto a high pitched roof... what did he think was going to happen..???

[ELVIS68]

Ok that was a bluff, emu knew fook all about aerials anyway

[birdie1971]

Are you suggesting that Emu made Rod go onto his own roof... in order to murder him???

[ELVIS68]

Emu had enough of Rod sticking his arm up his @rse and pulled the aerial socket out of the wall.

Rod climbed the ladder one handed as you would and fell

Emu`s can`t fly but this one did

[trt]

The guy who invented '' cats eyes '' he has saved 1,000s of lives.

[birdie1971]

ELVIS68 - I don't doubt it. I always thought there was something fishy about Rods' death. Emu was never arrested or even questioned – the assumption being that he was somehow 'under the control' of Rod. I understand Emu's now living in Buenos Aires under the name of Amueo. Avian bast*rd.

[birdie1971]

Trt – With my serious head on, that's a great nomination. I never thought of Percy Shaw but you're spot on.

[Clanad]

Funny how the 'genius' tag often is taken by the public at large to mean that the one so tagged has the ability to expound on almost everything in 'genius' terms.

What I mean, is I live in the rural western U.S. and one day driving my trusty but comfortably worn Ford 4 wheel drive pickup down one of our less than perfect county roads at least 10 miles from the nearest habitation, when I came upon a relatively new Volvo station wagon. The driver was standing outside, bent over, looking at one wheel. As I approached and slowed, I could see a look of relief come over his whole face. Stopping, it was easily seen that he had a simple flat tire. He said he didn't know what was wrong, but added that the Volvo had "always been dependable". I asked if he had a spare and jack. He was completely befuddled by the question so I asked if I could look in the rear compartment. Neatly stored in the wheel house was a never used spare tire and jack. I used my own utility jack (used for everything on a ranch, including fence straightening or calf pulling), and in short order had the tire changed. He thanked me profusely and offered to pay, but, of course I declined... it's the cowboy way...

Next time I saw him was about a month later at a local (relatively speaking) Community College where he was the guest speaker presenting the current status of examination of Globular Clusters... which populate the halo or bulge of the Milky Way and other galaxies with a significant concentration toward the Galactic Center.
So it goes... He was quite tweedy... appropriately so. Nice guy but I wouldn't want to trust him with my Blue Heeler or cow horse...