A Conversation with Freeman Dyson

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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There’s so much more to Freeman Dyson than the Dyson Sphere. The mathematician, physicist, futurist and author is one of the greatest and most original minds of our era. He has much to say to Mat Kaplan about the future of space exploration and humanity in this week’s show. NASA has announced two exciting papers based on discoveries by Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory Rover. Emily Lakdawalla has the straight story. And we’ve got one more signed copy of “Chasing New Horizons” to give away in this week’s new space trivia contest. Learn more about Freeman Dyson and everything else we cover here: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0613-freeman-dyson.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast listeners. An extraordinary human being is my guest on this
0:07.0	week's episode of the show. I hope you will enjoy my conversation with Freeman
0:11.8	Dyson as much as I did.
0:14.7	And if you do, please consider sharing the show.
0:18.2	I think it is a conversation that should be shared.
0:20.6	I hope you'll feel the same way. And perhaps even more importantly, please consider
0:26.0	giving us a rating or even better yet a review on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, wherever it is that you listen to the show if they provide for such things.
0:38.0	Would be much appreciated. Thank you so much. It continues to be a tremendous pleasure to bring you planetary radio.
0:47.0	Freeman Dyson, this week on planetary radio. Welcome, I'm Ad Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the Human Adventure
0:59.6	across our Solar System and beyond.
1:02.4	I have long to talk with today's very special guest for longer
1:06.8	than this show has existed. Join me for a conversation with one of our era's greatest
1:11.9	thinkers about Dyson spheres and Dyson trees
1:15.2	commercial spaceflight rebellious science black holes gravity waves and
1:20.0	humanity's bright future we'll also give away our last sign copy of that new book by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon
1:27.6	called Chasing New Horizons.
1:29.6	And Bruce Betts has a plethora of planets to point out.
1:34.0	We begin with Planetary Society Senior Editor Emily Lockwala.
1:38.0	More exciting news from Mars, Emily, perhaps, um, had that generated greater enthusiasm and excitement than maybe it deserved,
1:47.0	although it is pretty exciting.
1:48.0	We'll come back to that topic, but first tell us what are these two papers that were released in tandem?
1:54.0	There were two papers that came out in Science magazine last week,
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