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Who is the coolest person you know of?

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[-] red@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

ykw i legit tought about this and i really can't think of anyone cooler than me

[-] molten@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago
[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Woah, same here! Did you also meet him at that big house party on the morning of December 4, 2024? I remember very distinctly how he was telling everyone about all of the different cities he visited, but how he had never been to New York nor did he ever intend to.

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 22 hours ago

Hey, do you know who ELSE is really cool?

[-] helix@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago
[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

That I've met personally?

Don't know, but here's a list that I consider the coolest people I've personally met and I'll give a brief synopsis on how I met them:

Neil Armstrong: Went to get a haircut in Loveland, OH where I was living at the time. Walked into an old school barber shop that was on Loveland-Medaira RD, just down from Krogers. There were three men in the shop, the barber, who was cutting the hair of a man in the chair, and one more who was reading a newspaper, so I couldn't see his face. The barber finished up and looked at the gentleman reading the newspapers and said; "Neil you're up next." The man put the newspaper down and I found myself face to face with the first man to walk on the moon. Yeah... It was a trip to say the least. He lived in the town next to Loveland and he was there looking for a new barber, as his previous one was a bit of a creep.

Paul Tibbets: My Demonstration Skydiving team was performing in an airshow at Lunken Airport on the east side of Cincinnati. Col Tibbets was there as part of a Hiroshima presentation. After my team wrapped up after the show I toured the displays. I had my team shirt on and walked up to the table where he was sitting. He asked a few questions and said my team and I were really brave doing demo jumps... Yeah.. the guy that dropped the first nuclear bomb called my team and I... Brave... Rather a surreal moment for me. He was really interesting to talk to.

Chuck Yeager: Gen Yeager drove the pace car for the 1986 Indy 500. My high school marching band also was marching in the parades and around the track. Yes, I'm really old, I was 16 that year. Some friends and I were walking around the campus where we were staying and actually just ran into him... Literally. I knew who he was, but none of my friends did not, so I didn't say anything. He gruffly dismissed us and walked off. Yes, we did apologize for running into him.

James Doohan: He gave a presentation at Indiana University Southeast in the early 80's and my Dad took me to see it. He never announced that he was staying afterward and for some reason my Dad and I hung around after most everyone left. There was only about 8 people that were in the auditorium and we got time to talk directly to him. He was the type of person that you just... Loved. He was an actual good person who was also very intelligent. I actually cried when he died in 2005.

Anyway, that's my submission of people that I think of as "cool" that I had direct interactions with. Other's than that I would consider cool:

John Young: Robert Crippen, in an interview, stated that his heart rate while Columbia was sitting on the pad, for its first launch was over 140. John's was 70. Yeah, John Young was sitting on top of thousands of pounds of brand new untested rocket and wasn't bothered in the least... FUCK ME. If that ain't cool, I don't know what is. I never got to meet him, unfortunately.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Would be between Vijay Prashad and Michael Parenti for living people.

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago

I think halo is a really cool guy, eh kills aliens and doesn't afraid of anything

[-] trk@aussie.zone 14 points 1 day ago

That's some vintage memeing

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago

I'm basically a dinosaur by internet standards.

[-] Olap@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Me obviously, it certainly isn't anyone else

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Sorry to inform you that I'm cooler ;)

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Bold to admit you don't know anyone

[-] PurpleGameBoy@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago
[-] postnataldrip@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago
[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

So many downvotes. I thought it was funny! But I suppose some people might need context:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suspended-animation/

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Well I was gonna say I.C. Weiner

[-] rivan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

Xi Jingping

[-] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

Chuck Ragan

[-] Naich@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago

My mum says I'm cool.

[-] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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