Favourite human alive

[jeffman]

Bjarne Soustrop

[polak]

Marshall Mathers

Edit: Elon Musk is another good one. Seems like he's genuinely trying to help the world and not just get rich.

[Coach]

Musk
Malala Yousafzai (picture above, great choice)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
John Oliver
Noam Chomsky (I'm pretty sure this guy is future me).

[peter12]

Originally Posted by MattyC

Musk
Malala Yousafzai (picture above, great choice)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
John Oliver
Noam Chomsky (I'm pretty sure this guy is future me).

Ego much?

[OMG!WTF!]

Alex Honnold. Commitment on other worldly levels. I probably don't know enough to be amazed by most people. But I understand this guy. And his world is unimaginable.

[Coach]

I didn't really mean it like that. Just that the way he speaks and what he talks about.

[V]

My daughter.

Don't tell my other three kids.

[peter12]

Originally Posted by MattyC

I didn't really mean it like that. Just that the way he speaks and what he talks about.

Don't forget that he started out as an absolutely dominant trailblazer in linguistics.

[calf]

David Avacado Wolfe, Food Babe, Dr. Oz

[peter12]

Originally Posted by calf

David Avacado Wolfe, Food Babe, Dr. Oz

Those parents from Southern Alberta bravely fighting a totalitarian government for the right to treat their kids the way Nature intended.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by peter12

Well, my favourite human alive is obviously my wife. .

sycophant

[peter12]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

sycophant

No one knew that you were my wife until now.

[FurnaceFace]

Sylvia Earle


From http://mission-blue.org/

Mission Blue is an initiative of the Sylvia Earle Alliance (S.E.A.) to ignite public support for the protection of Hope Spots—special places that are vital to the health of the ocean, the blue heart of our planet. We draw inspiration from the vision of our founder, Dr. Sylvia Earle, and are uniting a global coalition of partners to inspire an upwelling of public awareness, access and support for a worldwide network of marine protected areas. From the seamounts of the high seas to the shallow sunlit reefs, Mission Blue seeks to bring about a significant increase in ocean protection from less than four percent today to 20% by the year 2020. Under Dr. Earle’s leadership, the Mission Blue team has embarked on a series of expeditions to further this vision and shed light on these ocean Hope Spots. We also bring the discoveries and stories of a network of ocean experts to the public through documentaries, social and traditional media, and innovative tools like Google’s “Explore the Ocean” layer. Additionally, we support the work of many conservation NGOs with whom we share the basic mission of ocean protection and public awareness. Currently, the Mission Blue coalition includes over 100 respected ocean conservation groups and like-minded organizations — from large multinational companies down to individual scientific teams doing important research. Decades of overfishing, pollution, climate change, acidification and other human pressures threaten the fundamental nature of the ocean—and therefore threaten the future of humankind.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by peter12

Don't forget that he started out as an absolutely dominant trailblazer in linguistics.

Yea, I know. You've never met or listened to an older person and thought "this is how I will be when I'm older"?

It's more about the type of person and their perspective than anything to do with their accomplishments.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by MattyC

Noam Chomsky (I'm pretty sure this guy is future me).

Originally Posted by peter12

Ego much?

Quite the opposite; Noam Chomsky is a myopic ideologue. Matty's selling himself short.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Quite the opposite; Noam Chomsky is a myopic ideologue. Matty's selling himself short.

Really? I think he's the opposite of myopic. He looks at things at a very macro scale, sometimes to a fault. But near-sighted is the last thing I would describe him as.

Also, I'm getting pretty tired of "ideologue" being used with a negative context all the time. It's coming close to commie or socialist for the way it seems top be presented by most people. We're all ideologues about something. If you're not an ideologue about anything what are you? Someone who doesn't stand for anything?

[peter12]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Quite the opposite; Noam Chomsky is a myopic ideologue. Matty's selling himself short.

If we are talking about his political writings, then, yes, I agree. His work in the field of linguistics could be considered Newtonian. Paradigm-shifting.

[afc wimbledon]

Billy Bragg, always a hero of mine then got to meet him a few years ago backstage at the Orpheum, I was terrified as almost every famous musician in the world is a narsasistic ###### bag, he was a really nice down to earth bloke who spent half an hour asking me questions about being a youth worker.

[peter12]

Oh, Peter Hitchens - the brother of the late Christopher Hitchens. I have casually sent him questions and comments to his personal email address, and he has always promptly responded. Occasionally, we have even struck up a bit of a correspondence. Classy dude.

[Parallex]

My daughter. In the event that family members don't count for this exercise then I ask myself this question... what human being on earth is most likely to become Iron Man? Therefor I gotta say Elon Musk.