[AR] Re: Freeman Dyson, RIP

  • From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 13:31:34 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 3 Mar 2020, roxanna Mason wrote:

...plus a true sphere wouldn't even work, really is a ring or cluster of millions of independent orbiting power-sats...

And indeed, if you read Dyson's original paper, he wasn't proposing a single solid structure, but rather a swarm of smaller objects in coordinated orbits.

Henry

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