User:Wolfkeeper

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About me

A.	This user doesn't believe in Thor.

G.	This user believes the Geocentric model.

A.	This user is an Atomist.

W.	This user is a follower of Woden.

P.	This user supports privatisation of British Pavements.

E.	This user still has the scratches from testing Erwin Schrödinger's cat theory.

R.	This user makes his tea in Russell's teapot, and hence it cannot be found in orbit around the Sun.

The growth rate of new articles in the wikipedia is decaying...

The current prediction is that the wikipedia will level off at about 3.5 million articles.

This user thinks Megatokyo is a good place to live provided you stay away from the brain eating zombies, much like the wikipedia really.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice but in practice there is."

"A day without fusion is like a day without sunshine."

"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."

[edit] Significant contributions

Specific impulse/Jet engine/Rocket/Rocket engine/Steam engine/Internal combustion engine/Hall effect thruster
Tether propulsion/Launch loop/orbital ring
Reaction Engines A2/LAPCAT/Skylon/SABRE/Concorde/CarterCopter
Flight
Spaceflight/Space exploration/Delta-v budget/Delta-v/Oberth effect
Strong focusing
Peer-to-peer
Network neutrality
Noble lie - putting the lie in elite for more than two millenia!

Hobbies include getting vandals banned.

[edit] Deep magic

(stuff I like)

Mnemonic - how to remember enormous amounts of stuff without writing it down!
Halbach array - it's an asymmetric field, far stronger on one side, but the magnet layout looks surprisingly symmetric!
Halbach cylinder - it's a halbach array that's made of permanent magnets that's off-and-onable!
Hofstadter's law - it takes longer than you expect to understand it
Nomic - what the wikipedia is not supposed to be
Okinawa diet - they don't eat much, but they live long
Fermat's theorem/Lagrangian - The magic that runs quantum mechanics; but my mind is in a superposition state about the Many worlds theory
Special relativity - time and space are interchangeable???? You bet.
Constructal theory - perfectly imperfect
Kudos to whoever came up with this concept
Peripeteia - the moment when everything changes
Anagnorisis - the moment of self discovery
Hash tables - you put things in random places so you can find them quickly???
Tether propulsion - no fuel required! How does that work?
Space Elevator - the ultimate Indian rope trick and the Lofstrom loop
Birthday paradox - two people usually have the same birthday!
Reaction Engines Skylon - it flies all the way around the world ... multiple times on one fill-up (if anyone ever builds it) - also A2 (aircraft) goes half way around non stop
Evolution - the modification of genomic population over time, and it's useful if you want to apply phage therapy!
The big rip - ITEOTWAWKI
Nash equilibrium - the theory you get when a paranoid schizophrenic tries to figure out the world... and it applies to business quite well (gack)
SOFAR channel - So far and yet so loud! And some people think that aliens landed because of it!
Teapotahedron
Page rank- practical Epistemology applied to the web to avoid infinite regress
Faraday paradox
Rattleback it goes around, stops goes back the other way, sometimes several times...
xkcd - "We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus. This is not the algorithm. This is close."
The Mother of All Demos
Julius Sumner Miller
Understand (story)
Brunnian link
Litz wire is cute and has a relative magnetic permeability well below 1!
Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation
Auxetics you squidge it, and it shrinks sideways
Metamaterials can have a negative refractive index but personally, I can't see it
My Uncle Napoleon contains the whole of Iranian politics. No, really.
Mark Thomas
happy face crater Smile, you're on interplanetary photographs!

Also: External deep magic site

[edit] Deep black magic

(Things I really, really don't like)

Deep packet inspection (traffic shaping is a much better idea because it doesn't break network neutrality)
Lobbying America has some of the best politicians money can buy!

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[edit] Honors

This editor is a Lord High Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain, Cigarette Burn, and Chewed Broken Pencil.

		The Original Barnstar
		I award you this Barnstar for your hard work on the Rocket article. Congratulations, and keep up the good work. :) Pursey ^{Talk \| Contribs} 00:34, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		I've observed your efforts in upholding the Network Neutrality article. Even if there was no reason to doubt your opposing number's motives, it's clear from his condescension, his insults and his steadfast refusal of views other than his own that he has no interest in cooperating, and accordingly that your work has been valuable. That you've been at it for nine months astounds me. Want one of these? --Kizor 15:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC)