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3 unusual facts about Dyson tree


Dyson tree

The word "Orwood" in this context was originally coined by Anders Sandberg.

The video game Dyson (now called Eufloria to avoid confusion with Dyson vacuum cleaners) got its name and idea from Freeman Dyson's Dyson Tree hypothesis.

The concept is discussed in Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's 1985 non-fiction book Comet, and several paintings of Dyson trees around Saturn and in interstellar space are provided in the book by Jon Lomberg.


The Genesis Quest

This epic journey is made in a gigantic space-grown semi-sentient Dyson tree known as Yggdrasil.


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