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  • There is not. The Dyson Sphere is (now) a sci-fi concept that was never based in reality. This is from the guy who wrote it. It was a joke paper because he thought that SETI was a waste of time, just like that paper he wrote. Look up the paper, it literally won’t take more than 15 minutes to read, it’s like 1 page long and there is NO math or science in it. TLDR: We’d have to disassemble a planet the size of Jupiter to get enough “raw” matter to build one. It says nothing about how that matter would be converted into usable materials.

    Then for a billionaire to pretend to be a physicist just because he’s got money, who won’t even bother reading the source papers, shows their sheer stupidity to even utter the phrase “maybe we could build a Dyson Sphere in our lifetime”.














  • borth@sh.itjust.workstoOpen Source@lemmy.mlGIMP 3.0 Released
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s because marketing is expensive and marketing people know that corporations have money to throw at them, and the moment they lower their prices for a FOSS project, they might not get their old revenue when working for a company that can definitely pay what they ask.

    We need some sort of FOSM (Free and Open Source Marketing) that helps FOSS projects based on some sort of queue and whoever has recent changes that needs marketing.