Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe!

Astronomer, Moose Tamer

Hypothetically, you have to go to a friend’s wedding and your spouse gets the stomach flu and has to stay in the hotel room.  You already reserved “the plus one” and you would really like to have someone to talk to at your table during the reception. Fortunately, in the hotel you are staying at there is a convention of reanimated astronomers. Which one do ask to join you for the wedding?

Carl Sagan? Aryabhata? Copernicus? Liu Xin? Aristarchus? Sir Issac Newton? Not only are they boring but they will  insist you will be their wing-man and/or “score them some herb”.  Tycho Brahe may have never figured out the earth revolves around the sun, but he knows how to party.

Examples!

1. He pays a dwarf to entertain him and tell him the future.

2. One wedding he attended, led to a duel where he lost his nose. Therefore:

3.  He has a prosthetic nose for any occasion.

4. He had a tame moose as a drinking buddy.

So pick Tycho if nothing else you get a night of pleasant conversation and a moose ride home. Worst case scenario, you wet your pants, spend the night looking for a missing nose and the moose falls down the stairs… but the dwarf will probably warn you before hand.

Smelling the world through rose colored noses

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Neils Bohr

Neils Bohr

Nobel Prize Recipient, Great at physics and Horrible at Geopolitics, Great Dane

In 1913 he published his book on atomic theory which introduced the  model of atomic structure where electons in set orbits  revolve around a nucleus of protons and neutrons. This also includes the theory that electrons when dropping from higher orbits to lower orbits release  a quantum of energy , this lead to modern quantum theory

He worked with the British on Tube Alloys and by extension the Manhattan Project in developing atomic weaponry. Where he often insisted that Soviet scientists be included on the findings  of these projects, which  lead to Winston Churchill (another wfg) considering him a security threat.

Element 113 on the periodic table is named for him. I named my stuffed plesiosaur after him.

Living most of his life in Copenhagen, he is the third most famous Dane, following Hamlet and  Marmaduke

While his contributions to physics were innovative and  the basis for modern  physics.  He held to the common fallacy that peace can be achieved by giving evil the means to destroy you.

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