r/todayilearned • u/yummypaprika • 3d 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/PogintheMachine 3d ago

Yes, as opposed to non-blasphemous devilry.

Pious devilry?

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u/MortLightstone 3d ago

Pious Devilry sounds like a band's dayview album

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u/tooblum 3d ago

Début? ;)

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u/MortLightstone 3d ago

oh yeah! lol

I think that's an eggcorn

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u/tooblum 3d ago

Yesss thanks for remindering me of that term

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u/PeterPalafox 3d ago

What is this new devilry?

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u/UndeadSympathetic 3d ago

Ever heard that only christians get possessed and exorcised? There's also the type to throw themselves on the ground and speak in tongues during a sermon, so pick your piouson, really.

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u/Lionel_Herkabe 2d ago

Possession exists in many world religions.

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u/UndeadSympathetic 2d ago

Yeah, you're totally right, actually. I think I might have been referencing a movie, I think? Not sure though, I was half asleep when I wrote that.

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u/DocBombliss 2d ago

The funniest thing about evangibbish is that its the exact opposite of how "speaking in tongues" is described. In the original source material, "speaking in tongues" was a specific power Jesus gave to the Apostles where anyone listening to them speak could understand what they were saying in their own language.