User:N2e
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Hi, I'm N2e. I've been contributing to Wikipedia since
July 2008
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I have formal education in
liberal arts college while pursuing my day job of developing awesome software technology. I currently live in the western region of the United States
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About making Wikipedia a better encyclopedia
This I believe...
- "I really want to encourage a much stronger culture which says: it is better to have no information, than to have information like this, with no sources. Any editor who removes such things, and refuses to allow it back without an actual and appropriate source, should be the recipient of a barnstar."
- --Jimbo Wales, 19 July 2006
- "I really want to encourage a much stronger culture which says: it is better to have no information, than to have information like this, with no sources. Any editor who removes such things, and refuses to allow it back without an actual and appropriate source, should be the recipient of a barnstar."
- "The freedom to read and learn what you wish, without being spied upon, is a fundamental human right which is core to everything that we do and everything that we stand for." --Jimbo Wales. 15 January 2014
Areas of interest
- the Social system, particularly as (often unintentionally) occasioned by advances in technology
- bottom-up self-organization of humans in a complex adaptive system. While economics is a popular discipline in the academy today, the bottom-up spontaneous order perspective is under-studied and under-theorized. The "professionals" of the field often serve as paid priestsof whatever group pays their salary.
- political theory and political science; but NOT politics!
- human innovation
- institutions and institutionalized "rules of the game," informal and formal, that affect the type of social order that may emerge in any particular polity
- the interesting intersection of economics, philosophy and politics. This is a small area well outside the mainstream of each of the three disciplines as they exist today in academia, and is generally understudied and undertheorized.
- financial markets
- all things alternative energy with personal experience in electric vehicle and passive solar buildingdesign and construction.
- new competition for the national-monopoly governmental space initiatives of the early decades of the space age
- technology development
- software engineering -- the process of mutual and concatenate coordination of human efforts to design and build software that is on-time, on-budget and meets the customer requirement.
- next-generation communication and computing technology that will help facilitate the (currently unknown, and humanly unknowable) order that will emergein the coming years.
- the lay medical understanding in complex and rapidly changing medical disciplines. For example, the expansion of knowledge among non-medical professionals, typically parents and friends of affected children, about pleiotropic genetic disorders, both genetic syndromes and genetic diseases.
What I've been up to
What Wikipedia readers and editors have been up to
- For Wikipedia article traffic statistics, see stats.grok.se.
- For article editing statistics, see
Pending or current Wikipedia projects
- Improve Wikipedia coverage of the alt.space) aspect of spaceflight: competition for the national-monopoly governmental space initiatives of the early decades of the space age.
- Get Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui a bit better placed on the Wikipedia map. Further extend the limited view that came entirely from a copy of the (quite outdated) 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica with nothing reflecting recent scholarship on his role in constitutional theory and impact on the American founders.
- Endeavor to help improve Wikipedia citations by relentlessly tagging for Cleanuparticles I happen upon.
- Get an article up on the Carter Administration in July of 1979. This is an important chapter in US political history, and is an excellent example of the severe limitation of top-down hierarchical programs in a complex adaptive economy. It should not be missing from the Wikipedia archive as it is now.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ N2e, March 2010 (this is very far out of date, as of late 2014...)
- Take a look at the New product development article: the current (Dec 2014) instance is overly focused on merely the marketing and sales conceptualization of NPD. Need to get the equally-applicable parallel technical side of development better represented, dealing with requirements --> design --> build prototypes and write software --> validate and test --> release side on the map, as it is quite underrepresented in that article.
WikiProject Spaceflight and Astronomy/Astrophysics links
- article assessment
- GW's audit of orbital spaceflights
observable Universe – more stars (and earth-like planets) than all the grains of beach sand on planet Earth[2][3][4] – many more stars, at an estimated 10100, may be contained in a Universe (observed and unobserved) considered Inflationary.[5]
exoplanet systems and 896 multi-exoplanetary systems) – after studying only a very small portion of the starry sky.
- The
Mars rocks – Martians found?[7]).
- A spaceship from planet Earth speeding 165,000 miles an hour (as fast as our fastest one),[8] would take nearly 20,000 years[8][9] to travel beyond our Solar System to the nearest star Proxima Centauri – with no worthy place to land.
Milky Way Galaxy, is traveling toward Andromeda Galaxy. (WikiTalk)
- The
with microorganisms – at the very minimum.[11]
Modern Humans, much more recently yet – in less than the latest 0.005% of time.
extinct. Further, the total number of living cells on the Earth currently is estimated to be 1030; the total number since the beginning of Earth as 1040, and the total number for the entire time of a habitable planet Earth as 1041.[13][14]
- Chemists have determined that all life forms on planet Earth are based on one particular chemical – with astronomical variations.[15][16]
observable Universe, and that additionally, at least 99.9999999%[18] of all the matter in the Universe, from the very small to the very large, is empty space.
References (CLICK "[show]" on the right)
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- ^ Staff (2020). "How many stars are there in the Universe?". European Space Agency. Archived from the original on January 17, 2020. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
- ^ Mackie, Glen (February 1, 2002). "To see the Universe in a Grain of Taranaki Sand". Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing. Archived from the original on August 11, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ Mack, Eric (19 March 2015). "There may be more Earth-like planets than grains of sand on all our beaches - New research contends that the Milky Way alone is flush with billions of potentially habitable planets -- and that's just one sliver of the universe". CNET. Archived from the original on 1 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- from the original on 1 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- from the original on December 1, 2023. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Archivedfrom the original on December 3, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2023.- ^ Staff (2020). "Martians on Mars found by the Curiosity rover". 360cities.net. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
- ^ a b Cofield, Calla (August 24, 2016). "How We Could Visit the Possibly Earth-Like Planet Proxima b". Space.com. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
- ^ Bogdan, Dr. Dennis (2020). "Calculation - Time to nearest star". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on August 21, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
- ^ Fraknoi, Andrew (2007). "How Fast Are You Moving When You Are Sitting Still?" (PDF). NASA. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
- ^ Kolata, Gina (June 14, 2012). "In Good Health? Thank Your 100 Trillion Bacteria". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
- ^ Novacek, Michael J. (November 8, 2014). "Prehistory's Brilliant Future". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
- ^ Overbye, Dennis (December 1, 2023). "Exactly How Much Life Is on Earth? - According to a new study, living cells outnumber stars in the universe, highlighting the deep, underrated link between geophysics and biology". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 1, 2023. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
- ^ Crockford, Peter W.; et al. (November 6, 2023). "The geologic history of primary productivity". Current Biology. 33 (21): P7741-4750.E5. Archived from the original on December 1, 2023. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
Nucleic Acid - a basic chemical for all known life forms - in the form of DNA - and/or - RNA - that defines - by way of a particular genetic code sequence - all the astronomically diverse known life forms on Earth - all such known life forms are essentially a variation of this particular Nucleic Acid chemical that, at a very basic level, has been uniquely coded for a specific known life form". Dr. Dennis Bogdan.- ^ Berg, J.M.; Tymoczko, J.L.; Stryer, L. (2002). "Chapter 5. DNA, RNA, and the Flow of Genetic Information". Book: Biochemistry. 5th edition. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
- ^ Baker, Harry (July 11, 2021). "How many atoms are in the observable universe?". Live Science. Archived from the original on December 1, 2023. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
- ^ Sundermier, Ali (September 23, 2016). "99.9999999% of Your Body Is Empty Space". ScienceAlert. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
The emerging place of Wikipedia
(Overview by Dr. Dennis Bogdan)
BEST ARTICLES*: 50,358; *POPULAR ARTICLES*: Last 24 hours; Last Week: Top25; Top5000 – and has (for the English version) 861 administrators and 123,717 active editors (includes over 1,400 stated PhDs and over 130 MDs) – as of 12:26, April 27, 2024 (UTC).
- Wikipedia => Is "over 90 times" the size of Encyclopedia Britannica (2021). (calc)
- Wikipedia => Is encoded in synthetic DNA strands (2019).
- Wikipedia => Is laser-etched in glass on the Moon (2019).
- Wikipedia => Is available as 7,473 Books for $500,000 (2015).
- Wikipedia => Is honored with a Monument (2014).
- Wikipedia => Is the name of an Asteroid (2013).
- Wikipedia => "Is one of the Jewels in the internet’s crown."
- Wikipedia => "Nos Auxilium Facere Interrete Non Lactaverunt."
- Wikipedia => "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's what we're doing."
Handy Wikipedia links for editing
- WP:UTM- user talk messages, i.e., warnings
- Article improvement templates: Template:Verifiability and sources
- Help:IPA for English - IPA codes for English words, Template:pron-en- template for English IPA
- N2e misc. links
See Also
- Wikipedia:The Most Important Thing Possible
- Wikipedia:Deny recognition
- Wikipedia:There is no deadline
- Advice for Wikipedians
- On notability
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