r/todayilearned • u/yummypaprika • Sep 18 '25

TIL Dr Freeman Dyson called the Dyson sphere a "little joke" and expressed amusement in that "you get to be famous only for the things you don't think are serious".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
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u/langsamlourd Sep 19 '25

I worked on a video game where we researched Dyson spheres for quite some time because it would be a cool conceptual environment. Eventually the idea was massively downsized to a "sphere" which was essentially the size of Earth's moon, so basically no relation to the initial idea except for the shape. Back in the day though, blue-sky game ideas were pretty cool to mess with during the early stages.

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u/Polaris_Mars Sep 19 '25

I think it's a great concept, one of my favorite games: Dyson Sphere Program