User:Wolfkeeper
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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.

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

Significant contributions

• Specific impulse/Jet engine/Rocket/Rocket engine/Steam engine/Internal combustion engine
• Tether propulsion/Launch loop/Hall effect thruster
• A2 (aircraft)/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.

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
• 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!
• 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...

Also: External deep magic site

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!

Honors

This editor is a Splendid and Majestic Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain and Cigarette Burn.

		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)

		The Minor Barnstar
		Here's the minor barnstar for cleaning up after my colossal mistake. (messedrocker • talk) 23:13, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

I award you the Aviation Barnstar in recognition of your knowledgeable contribution to aviation articles. -Bzuk