Fun facts & speculations:
Wittgenstein could have been one of the pioneers in aeronautics (worked on aero engines, had a propeller design patented in 1911) if he hadn’t caught philosophy. He not only fought in WW I, he also bought a cannon with his own money and gifted it to his employer at the time, the Austrian army. Later in the war he was captured and held in the officers camp at Monte Cassino.
The point is, he would have known damn well how much parmesan would go on his pasta. Or risotto.
There is an alternative universe where Wittgenstein didn’t threaten Popper with a poker but whacked Heidegger over the head with it, taught aerodynamics and moral philosophy at the TU Berlin to, amongst others, Wernher von Braun, and worked on making Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Communism a glorious reality.
