Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare review their final scientist ranking and invite listeners to disagree with their choices. The conversation closes with reflections on the exercise and the show's sign-off.
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1:34:50da, and like >> Einstein again, longevity is like huge. But for Newton it was like um a 10-year span where he just did balls to the wall. And then and then he started doing like side quests. Kind of like what Messi's doing right now. >> He's doing it in Miami. >> With in Miami, right? Like Newton was like, "Okay, I'm going to like I I you know, he started like degenerate gambling and like trading in like stocks, lost a bunch of money, like just doing random stuff. >> That is fantastic. That gives us our full ranking table >> Yeah. >> with Einstein as our alpha as the goat in this context of the top 25, sorry, 26 scientists that were featured in
1:35:30Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer ranked by tier. I think you've made a very good argument for every placement. >> Right. >> I'm glad. I I think I'll there'll be some people who are going to be I think in the five to 12 like six to 12 range. I think there may be some >> Mhm. >> movability around there. I think the top five is hard to argue with. >> Yeah. >> Um >> I think there might be some people that are going to be mad that Bohr is number two because they're all ever ready and degenerates who believe in the um multi-universe, you know? But come at me, bro. Let's go. >> interpretation. >> Yeah. Um this was a really fantastic special
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