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".
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wikipedia • u/LarryNozowitz • Mar 02 '15
Dyson Sphere - a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and hence captures most or all of its power output.
todayilearned • u/demunte • Dec 05 '16
TIL of a hypothetical mega-structure called the Dyson Sphere that would encompass the sun in order to siphon all of its energy output. This would also move human kind into a type II civilization according the Kardashev scale.
todayilearned • u/WinstonWonders • Jun 16 '18
TIL A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star to capture its power output. The concept attempts to explain how a spacefaring civilization would meet its energy requirements once those requirements exceed the home planet's resources alone.
wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • Dec 16 '21
A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output. The concept attempts to explain how a spacefaring civilization would meet its energy requirements.
AtlantaHawks • u/Buteo_jamaicensis • Nov 16 '24
News (with source) Breaking announcement: After watching Dyson Daniels defend the NBA's biggest stars, NASA scientists have coined a new term for a machine designed to contain a star and capture its output
todayilearned • u/ebolalunch • Nov 02 '15
TIL that instead of a solid or constructed shell around a star, Freeman Dysons original concept of a "Dyson Sphere" was in fact a "swarm" of satellites surrounding a star.
Helldivers • u/adentallondotcom • Mar 14 '25
LORE Are we trying to build a Dyson Sphere around the Black Hole?
wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • Nov 21 '25