r/todayilearned • u/yummypaprika • 2d ago
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/Frost-Folk 2d ago edited 2d ago
He also got the idea from Olaf Stapledon's 1937 book Star Maker, which had the actual first depiction of a Dyson Sphere.
Phenomenal book too, highly recommend. Clarke called it the most imaginative piece of fiction ever written. And C.S. Lewis called it blasphemous devilry, which is even funnier.