Who goes...you decide?

Question

You're in a hot air balloon with Einstein, Shakespeare, Marie Curie and Mozart. The balloon is too heavy and you have to kick someone out. Who?

Answer 1

I'd threaten Einstein. In his terror he'd come up with a brainy plan.

Answer 2

Well they're all dead, so it doesn't make a lot of difference.

Assuming that they're all alive - then, Mozart. He's a wildly overrated composer. Incidentally, Einstein and Marie Curie are pretty redundant, seeing as they both worked in the area of particle physics. One or the other would do, you don't need both.

Having thought about it, we don't need to kick anyone out. If the balloon is too heavy then we only got into the air by some flukey draught in the first place, so eventually we will gently sink back down to earth again. That's assuming that we're in the air at all, which you don't specify.

Answer 3

Einstein and Marie Curie are both scientists so they have to stay alive to invent equations and radioactive materials. u can throw mozart out becaue we'll still have beethoven. shakespeare has to stay so he can contribute 1500 words in english language that are used today

Cheers!!

Answer 4

Shakespeare.

Others have creative contributions for the world like research, subtle and sophisticated entertainment etc.

Shakespeare has only 1 thing for the world : bore the world beyond limit with is absurd writings. Which anyway are useless,
outdated and irrelevant in today's world. Anyway noone understands what he is trying to say ...except nerds and that doesn't count. I doubt even he himself would hold his own writings in any high esteem unless he is deceiving himself.

Mozart can lift one's soul and consciousness with his wonderful art of music. He can make one feel divine entertainment.
At least a few sophisticated people and connoisure of arts and music understand his music and take a deep plunge into their inner self and Get Entertained beyond limits. This music is a sort of meditation for some. Mozart's music is for entertainment and to feel good for all of the humanity if one tries just a little to understand and get entertainment from it. One can even reach extacy .. like orgasmic feeling if one tries just a little to understand Mozart's work simply through listening.
His work has a lot of utility.

Reasearchers are anyway good for the world.

So
Just kick Shakespeare out and let the baloon fly with 3 useful people on it.
That bore of the books is just of no use. He never was.
And today he is definitely not.

That bore is of no use.

Answer 5

Shakespeare. None of his plays make much sense now as no one bothers to update the language. I've never met a person who enjoys reading Shakespeare so get rid of him.

Answer 6

I'd ask Shakespeare to chuck his books over the edge, to see if it made a difference. If not, Mozart had better strap the parachute on!!

Answer 7

Goodbye Marie Curie - I live for the moment and wish to have a good conversation, just don't go all pretentious on me guys.

Answer 8

Einstein would be the first to go, i think he'd be doing everyones head in with his numbers and theories, when all we wanted was a nice balloon trip :-)

Answer 9

C'ya Shakespeare!

Answer 10

Einstein definately. Did the world really need him when ther's me here. No good at writing plays, no good at chemistry and no good at music. What did Einstein do? Reality? Oh no the theory of Relativity!

Answer 11

mozart cause up in a baloon there isnt a piano and he would have recorded his songs any way so i could still listen to his music if i really wanted to, or if not there would alway have been another composer to make the same music any way