[AR] Re: Freeman Dyson, RIP
- From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 08:12:30 -0800
"John Dom" <johndom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Anybody on the list who was fortunate to talk to him in person? And what did
he say to you?
I met Freeman at one of the early Space Manufacturing conferences. He
was deeply involved and friends with fellow physics professor GK
O'Neill At the1979 SM conference, I talked him into asking his
publisher to let the L5 News print the chapter "Pilgrims, Saints, and
Spacemen" from his about to be published book _Disturbing the
Universe_. If you don't have a copy handy, it is here:
https://space.nss.org/media/L5-News-1979-08.pdf/ It is the first
article in the issue.
Dyson made a case in that chapter that the previous colonization
models would not work for O'Neill's space colonies because the
transportation cost was about 300 times too much to be self-funded. If
you took his analysis seriously, it took away much of the personal
motivation people had for space colonies.
A few years ago (2016) he was in residence at UCSD. At the time the
Beamed Energy Bootstrapping animation was new so I took it to his
office and showed it to him. He was not much impressed.
Keith
PS The connection would be remote if at all, but one of my great
grandmothers was a Dyson.
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