dyson spheres are a joke
595K views · Sep 17, 2025 · Entertainment
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@Personal_Pylon · 11 months ago
Man, this vacuum cleaner company has some pretty big ambitions.
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@BEEFDEAD · 1 year ago
Well, ChatGPT told me my ideas about Dyson spheres was neat and that I'm a special boy getting so close to the edge of known physics.
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@fguocokgyloeu4817 · 1 year ago
If you can build a Dyson Sphere, you have no need of a Dyson Sphere
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@Tongonto · 10 months ago
things I learned in this video:<br><br>1. physicists can be pretty funny<br>2. tech billionaires can be pretty dumb<br>3. if you disassemble jupiter, it'll fuck up the solar system
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@ctsamurai · 1 year ago
The fact that you found a clip of Dyson himself stating that he wasn't serious is excellent work.
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@DazArtingstall · 1 year ago
Step 1: Squish Mercury into a flat disc<br>Step 2: Obtain four giant elephants and an even gianter tortoise
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@SRHtheHedgehog · 1 year ago
I can't believe Dyson wrote the Onion article of physics papers
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@davidtreadwell9142 · 11 months ago
I attended a guest lecture by Prof. Dyson in which he talked about spheres and his astrochicken idea. He came across as a serious scientist who used these far-out concepts as a prompt to ask real questions about what kind of future we want to invent. He was aware of the joke. We were aware of the joke. It was still a valuable experience.
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@on_spikes · 1 year ago
my calculator has a little solar cell and thats just my contribution to our dyson sphere
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@DisProveMeWrong · 1 year ago
Dyson just wants to build a shell for our civilization in the pursuit of the ultimate goal: becoming a crab.
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@Ylyrra · 1 year ago
Love how every techbro solution to every problem involves an implicit step 0 of "stop doing anything practical to solve the problem right this second, because the yet-to-be-invented step 1 is just around the corner", it's almost like they don't want you to solve the problem and to buy their snake oil instead.
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@lotemnahshony-spitz9532 · 11 months ago
Video title: Dyson spheres are a joke<br>Surprising twist: Dyson spheres are LITERALY a joke
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