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starship-design: Freeman dyson on star travel
>Talk about being out of touch with research...this was written by Freeman
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>Dyson of all people for Time magazine. Check the article at:
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>http://www.time.com/time/reports/v21/science/stars.html
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>Lee
Dysons being a dweeb.
Its a known constant problem of old scientists that they get to over
confident. Imagine they asked a similarly eminent scientist at 1900 if we
would send people to the moon and automatic camera systems to planets with
cameras that automatically transmitted back images by wireless. He would
have had equally good reasons for explaining how silly that sounded. That
we have no idea how to make such spphisticated automitons. Or engines with
such power levels. Electronics, nuclear power, cybernetics, aerospace, etc
would all be rediculas fantasies.
Kelly