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Title: Freeman Dyson
Post by: lee n. field on February 28, 2020, 07:46:36 PM

RIP

I just saw this.  I wonder if SF consuming kids these days have read the name, at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson)

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Freeman John Dyson FRS (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020)

(It's nice to know that, if we absolutely had to, we have the tech to loft a lot of mass into space (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)).)

Title: Re: Freeman Dyson
Post by: Ben on February 28, 2020, 07:58:29 PM

Oh man. Total bummer. RIP. He was one of the top brains in the world, and being the foremost expert on closed systems, always injected sanity into the anthropogenic global warming crap.

Title: Re: Freeman Dyson
Post by: MechAg94 on February 28, 2020, 11:03:18 PM

Thanks for posting that.  I think some Scifi writers I have read drew from him.  Larry Niven's Ringworld was a pretty cool book.