{"id":4622,"date":"2013-09-24T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2013-09-24T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T00:03:00","slug":"video-freeman-dyson-joins-a-discussion-of-dyson-sphere-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4622","title":{"rendered":"Video: Freeman Dyson joins a discussion of Dyson sphere searching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video below is of a <a href=\"http:\/\/seti.org\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute<\/a> Google Hangout\u00a0 devoted to a discussion of<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the potential for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/WISE\/main\/index.html#.UkDI6VN6aP8\" target=\"_d\">WISE<\/a> telescope to detect extraterrestrial super-civilizations that acquired a large energy supply by building a mega-structure to harvest the energy of their star (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dyson_sphere\" target=\"_d\">Dyson sphere<\/a>&#8220;) or their entire galaxy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The participants include<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SETI Institute researchers\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/users\/jill-tarter\">Jill Tarter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/users\/franck-marchis\">Franck Marchis<\/a>\u00a0(host &amp; moderator) will hangout with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.personal.psu.edu\/jtw13\/blogs\/astrowright\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Wright<\/a>, professor of astronomy at Penn State,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csupomona.edu\/%7Emspovich\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Povich<\/a>, professor of astronomy at Cal Poly Pomona and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sns.ias.edu\/dyson\" target=\"_blank\">Freeman Dyson<\/a>, theoretical physicist and mathematician at the Institute for Advance Study.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/media\/hangouts\/searching-for-kardashev-civilizations-with-wise?utm_source=buffer&amp;utm_campaign=Buffer&amp;utm_content=buffer75a00&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_d\">Searching for Kardashev Type II and III Civilizations with WISE &#8211; SETI Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PHTw3WBtoSU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video below is of a SETI Institute Google Hangout\u00a0 devoted to a discussion of the potential for the WISE telescope to detect extraterrestrial super-civilizations that acquired a large energy supply by building a mega-structure to harvest the energy of their star (&#8220;Dyson sphere&#8220;) or their entire galaxy. The participants include SETI Institute researchers\u00a0Jill Tarter\u00a0and\u00a0Franck &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Freeman Dyson joins a discussion of Dyson sphere searching<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seti","category-spacecasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1cy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5301,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5301","url_meta":{"origin":4622,"position":0},"title":"Video: A galaxy full of planets &#8211; discussing the Kepler conference results","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"SETI Institute scientists \u00a0Jason Rowe, Doug Caldwell and Kepler mission scientist Natalie Batalha\u00a0discuss the latest Kepler exoplanet findings and the plans for the future in this Google+ Hangout\u00a0\u00a0moderated by SETI Institute scientist Franck Marchis. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=paN1OrwDd1Y Check out also the recent talk by SETI pioneer Frank Drake: Kepler and Its Impact\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/paN1OrwDd1Y\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11059,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11059","url_meta":{"origin":4622,"position":1},"title":"Video: SETI Institute Hangout discussion of Kepler 452b","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Seth Shostak talks with\u00a0SETI Institute scientists Douglas Caldwell, Jeffrey Coughlin, Joseph Twicken about the latest Kepler findings: https:\/\/youtu.be\/prBlDgBm6w4","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Exoplanets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Exoplanets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=46"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/prBlDgBm6w4\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13032,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13032","url_meta":{"origin":4622,"position":2},"title":"Video: &#8220;Frontiers in Artifact SETI: Waste Heat, Alien Megastructures &#038; Tabbys Star&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u00a0posted recently\u00a0about\u00a0 Tabby\u2019s Star, also known as\u00a0the \u201cAlien Megastructure Star\u201d. \u00a0In the SETI Institute seminar video below, Prof. Jason Wright of\u00a0Penn State University reviews what's known about the star and discusses the latest findings on\u00a0the star in the context of searches for \"Extraterrestrial Civilizations with Large Energy Supplies\". 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