Big Ideas

[Mark]

Big Ideas
(Series/Documentary, 60 Mins.)
"Exploring the Cosmos", (Episode #101).
Space: intellectual Freeman Dyson discusses the possibility of extraterrestrial life; astrophysicist John Bahcall discusses neutrinos; astrophysicist Feryal Ozel discusses neutron stars and black holes. (Original Airdate: March 30, 2003.)

Has anyone seen this before?

 

[Datt]

I haven't but it sounds interesting. What channel would it have been/will it be on?

 

[Umbran]

Never seen it, but Freeman Dyson is an interesting fellow, to say the least.

 

[s/LaSH]

Never seen it, but Freeman Dyson is an interesting fellow, to say the least.

"Then we disassemble the Solar System, and build one of these..."

Yeah. Quite interesting. Never heard of this program, but an interesting fellow.

 

[Umbran]

"Then we disassemble the Solar System, and build one of these..."

Hey, and that's not even mentioning the Space Chicken.

And, btw, the original "Dyson Sphere" is not a single object. The original thought is that any species who developed technology and lived long enough would eventually overpopulate, and move into space habitats. The original "Dyson Sphere" is a cloud of orbiting habitats so dense and complete that they absorb all the light a star produces (the inhavitants use that energy to live on, of course). This may not seem as efficient as a solid sphere, but it avoids the massive engineering problems of the larger construct.