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Proposed Articles

The following subsections are ideas I've come up with for new pages, but which I'm not sure meet the basic requirements of Wikipedia. (These might be considered original research.)

Proposed: Extra Mass (Science Fiction)

Explores the phenomenon common in science fiction whereby an object or entity grows larger and larger, seemingly acquiring extra mass and volume, or perhaps extra energy, from nowhere.

This occurs in many SciFi stories, and is even more common fantasy stories. However, the latter genre is not constrained to obeying physical laws (fictitious or otherwise), and most fantasy phenomenon can simply be explained away by the existence of magic.

Some examples:

Star Trek, multiple instances
Akira, Kaneda grows into a monstrous blob of flesh
Superman Returns, the crystal-generated island, now in space, presumably still growing

There are notable exceptions to this phenomenon, e.g., in Terminator II the Terminator 1000 could reform into various shapes but was always limited to the same volume and mass.

Exceptions:

Terminator II, model T-1000

Proposed: Crank Mathematical Beliefs

A short sampling of crank mathematical beliefs.

Accepted value of pi is wrong
Cantor's set theory is wrong
- Infinite sets do not exist
- Potentially infinite sets exist, but actually infinite sets do not
- All infinite sets are the same "size"
- Infinite sets are "unbounded" but finite
- Transfinite numbers do not exist
Set theory (ZFC) is inconsistent
Division by zero (^x/₀) is well-defined
Infinity is an arithmetic number
Circle squarers
Angle trisectors

Proposed: File time-stamp

In computing, a file timestamp is the date and time that a file was last modified. Data files reside within a file system, which keeps tracks of various attributes of each file, including the time it was last modified. Some file systems also record the creation time and time the file was last accessed.

Proposed: Jing-song Chung

Jin-Song Chung is an 8th dan Korean Tae Kwon Do martial arts master living in Carrollton, Texas. He held the title of national Tae Kwon Do champion in South Korea for five years in a row (date? — date?), and later immigrated to the United States. Chung held positions in the Texas chapter of the U.S. Tae Kwon Do Union (USTU) (dates?).

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John Derbyshire: Quotes

From www.imao.us

Journalists are scum.
Is this any way for free people to live?
Cry Havoc! And let slip the appropriate dogs.
I don't see how you can ever have enough nukes.
I do have some opinions that aren’t very respectable.
Like any honest reactionary, I loathe the New York Times.
For most people, college education is a waste of time and money.
The ducks aren't ever going to line up. The ducks are trying to kill you.
American society is increasingly a conspiracy of the smart against the dumb.
Marriage is one of those things that works best when people don't think about it too much.
The Middle East contains three hundred million people, and most of them are crazy as coots.
Carve into your mind in great stone letters: This nation is the hope, and the conscience, of the world.
Let's face it, in the great 20th-century struggle between the state and the individual, the state has won, game, set, and match.
The fact is that political stupidity is a special kind of stupidity, not well correlated with intelligence, or with other varieties of stupidity.
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.
I want to live among people who can read, write, give correct change and name the capital of their state. Beyond that, I think education is a luxury that people should pay for themselves.
Stereotypes are, in fact, merely one aspect of the mind's ability to make generalizations, without which science and mathematics, not to mention much of everyday life, would be impossible.
This is life. People stumble and grope blindly hither and thither, wondering if they did the right thing, occasionally knocking something over and hoping no one noticed, striving for illusory goals, addled with guilt and insecurity.
Look at our fool diplomats, poring over their treaties and resolutions and communiqués, while young men with burning eyes slip silently into our cities with boxes, canisters, cargoes, vials, and suitcases curiously heavy. Look at this proud tower! And feel its foundations tremble.
Does it not occur to you that by purging all sacred images, references, and words from our public life, you are leaving us with nothing but a cold temple presided over by the Goddess of Reason — that counterfeit deity who, as history has proved time and time and time again, inspires no affection, retains no loyalties, soothes no grief, justifies no sacrifice, gives no comfort, extends no charity, displays no pity, and offers no hope, except to the tiny cliques of fanatical ideologues who tend her cold blue flame?