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  2. Freeman Dyson - Wikipedia

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    Astrochicken is the name given to a thought experiment Dyson expounded in his book Disturbing the Universe (1979). He contemplated how humanity could build a small, self-replicating automaton that could explore space more efficiently than a crewed craft could.

  3. Astrochicken - Wikipedia

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    In his book Disturbing the Universe (1979), Dyson contemplated how humanity could build a small, self-replicating automaton that could explore space more efficiently than a crewed craft could. He attributed the general idea to John von Neumann , based on a lecture von Neumann gave in 1948 titled The General and Logical Theory of Automata .

  4. William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe - Wikipedia

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    William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is a documentary film about the late American civil rights attorney William Kunstler directed by daughters Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler that premiered at the 25th Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. [1]

  5. 'These are disturbing numbers': A 59-year-old woman with 3 ...

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    “These are disturbing numbers at 59 years old,” Ramsey said. “The answer to your question is, ‘We have to make more money.’ And we have not monetized your knowledge base very well.”

  6. List of works on intelligent design - Wikipedia

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    The Symbiotic Universe: Life and mind in the Cosmos. Morrow. ISBN 0-688-07604-1; Bernard Haisch (2010). The Purpose-Guided Universe: Believing In Einstein, Darwin, and God. New Page Books; 1 edition. ISBN 1-60163-122-7; Francis Hitching (1983). The Neck of the Giraffe or Where Darwin Went Wrong. Signet. ISBN 0-451-62232-4; Mae-Wan Ho (1984).

  7. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe

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    The book's rationale was also praised by media outlets including Newsday and The Economist. CNN described it as an answer to the Fermi paradox. [2] Several astronomy sources also praised the book including Sky & Telescope and Astronomy magazine. Other science media also praised the book including American Scientist, Popular Mechanics, and ...

  8. Dyson's eternal intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Freeman Dyson in 2005. Dyson's eternal intelligence (the Dyson Scenario) is a hypothetical concept, proposed by Freeman Dyson in 1979, by which an immortal society of intelligent beings in an open universe may escape the prospect of the heat death of the universe by performing an infinite number of computations (as defined below) though expending only a finite amount of energy.

  9. Quintessence: The Search for Missing Mass in the Universe

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    In this book Krauss demonstrates how the dark matter problem is now connected with two widely discussed areas in the modern cosmology: the ultimate fate of the universe and the cosmological constant. He also discusses an antigravity force that may explain recent observations of a permanently expanding universe.