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  1. A quotation from Freeman Dyson

    I felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles — this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

    Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) English-American theoretical physicist, mathematician, futurist
    In Jon Else, dir., The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb, Part 2 (1981)

    More about this quote: wist.info/dyson-freeman/53695/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #freemandyson #absolutepower #arrogance #nuclearenergy #nuclearweapon #potential #power #science #scientist #seduction

  2. #DysonSpheres: Could #alien #megastructures exist in the #MilkyWay? Scientists found 7 places to look
    Have scientists discovered infrared radiation, evidence of waste heat generated by the energy-harvesting star-surrounding spheres first proposed by British American physicist #FreemanDyson?
    cnn.com/2024/06/13/science/dys

  3. @CoolWorlds Laboratory Cornell.EDU
    #EternalIntelligence #LivingForever #CoolWorlds

    Extreme Future of Humanity as ‘#AI’ simulated eternally time dilated machine intelligence!

    #FreemanDyson

    EP “Outlasting the Universe”

    youtu.be/5UxUS6bPiT8?si=mKKH8a