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Dyson, a very smart man, saw a reason to build them. Now there may have been some revelations since his time that have made it obvious that they are not a good
by colordrops 5y ago
Dyson, a very smart man, saw a reason to build them. Now there may have been some revelations since his time that have made it obvious that they are not a good idea, but clearly that information has not spread widely. Care to enlighten us?
- ncmncm 5y agoFreeman Dyson gets a free pass. Dyson was writing at a time before people were thinking about controlled fusion as a way to generate power. Furthermore, he projected not building, but growing a biosphere spread out around a star. The notion of constructing a thing to try to gather and convert all of a star's radiation is a radical corruption of his idea. Finally, he posited this development in the near term, while humanity remains far short of any capability that could actually be called advanced, with nothing better to hand than genetic engineering and dumb rockets.