Daily Archives: March 21, 2014

Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable from Awesome: Dyson Sphere!

In honor of Freeman Dyson’s upcoming visit, I thought we could talk about Dyson Spheres. A Dyson Sphere is a structure which surround a solar system and collects all of the energy which is given off by the star.  Dyson published this idea in his 1960 paper “Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infared Radiation“. … Continue reading Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable from Awesome: Dyson Sphere! Continue reading

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Dying for Comfort: Mankinds’ Descent into Climate Change

Global Warming can be easily linked to human activities, all one must do is look at a chart of Carbon Dioxide concentration in the atmosphere on any of a number of time scales. Compare this with global temperature change, and it is clear that as CO2 emissions are rising so is global temperature.   But … Continue reading Dying for Comfort: Mankinds’ Descent into Climate Change Continue reading

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