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lee n. field

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Freeman Dyson
« 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

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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.)
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Re: Freeman Dyson
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Freeman Dyson
« Reply #2 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. 
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