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This I believe...

• "If it is true, it should be easy to supply a reference. If it is not true, it should be removed.

"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

• "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

• the emergence of spontaneous order in the Social system, particularly as (often unintentionally) occasioned by advances in technology
• economics, especially 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 priests of 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.
• psychological effects manifesting in human behavior in the financial markets
• all things energy, especially dynamic change that becomes possible in energy technology and energy markets when relatively free markets and liberal regulatory environments exist. I have a side interest in alternative energy with personal experience in electric vehicle and passive solar building design and construction.
• private space ventures -- recent new competition for the national-monopoly governmental space initiatives of the early decades of the space age
• software, hardware, and embedded system 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 emerge in the coming years.
• the emergence of 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.

 

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• Improve Wikipedia coverage of the emerging NewSpace (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 Cleanup articles I happen upon.
• Get an article up on the Emergency Building Temperature Restrictions which were promulgated late in 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.

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• 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.

• article assessment
• GW's audit of orbital spaceflights

 

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TOP TEN SCIENCE FACTS – by Dr. Dennis Bogdan (test)

HIGHLIGHTS by Years (including 2000s); Breakthroughs; History; Outline; Timelines (Human, Life, Nature); Questions.

"How Do We Know What Is TRUE?" (animated video; 2:52)

• Astronomers estimate^[1] that there are as many as "One Septillion" (10²⁴ or, 1 with 24 zeros) stars in the 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]

• Astronomers confirm^[6] (as of July 24, 2024) => 7,026 exoplanets (in 4,949 exoplanet systems and 1007 multi-exoplanetary systems) – after studying only a very, very small portion of the starry sky.

 

• The NASA probes currently active on the planet Mars (as of December 28, 2024) are the following:
    Perseverance rover & Ingenuity helicopter => 1371 sols (1409 days) (3 years, 314 days) (landed February 18, 2021).
    Curiosity rover => 4406 sols (4527 days) (12 years, 144 days) (landed August 6, 2012).
  (USA flag on Mars – Mars Weather: Perseverance*Curiosity*InSight – 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.

• Spaceship planet Earth is speeding about "One Million" miles an hour^[10] through outer space and, along with the rest of the Milky Way Galaxy, is traveling toward Andromeda Galaxy. (WikiTalk)

 

• The Universe contains life – on planet Earth – at least – and – we are not alone – life abounds – wherever we are – with microorganisms – at the very minimum.^[11]

• Biologists currently understand that microorganisms were the only known life forms present during the earliest 85% of time since the planet Earth was formed 4.54 billion years ago – Plants and Animals appear much more recently – in the latest 15% of time – Modern Humans, much more recently yet – in less than the latest 0.005% of time.

• Biologists have estimated that over 99%^[12] of all species of life forms that have ever lived on planet Earth are now 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]

• Physicists have estimated that there is about 10⁸² (1 with 82 zeros) atoms^[17] in the 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) (NOTE: If ads or paywall, *Click Archived version* or *CopyPaste link to new Browser tab*)

^ 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. ^ T. Bovaird, T.; Lineweaver, C.H.; Jacobsen, S.K. (13 March 2015). "Using the inclinations of Kepler systems to prioritize new Titius–Bode-based exoplanet predictions". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 448 (4): 3608–3627. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv221. Archived from the original on 1 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023. ^ Totani, Tomonori (February 3, 2020). "Emergence of life in an inflationary universe". Scientific Reports. 10 (1671): 1671. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-58060-0. PMC 6997386. PMID 32015390. ^ Staff (2020). "The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia - Catalog". The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Archived from 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. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.040. PMID 37827153. Archived from the original on December 1, 2023. Retrieved December 1, 2023. ^ Bogdan, Dr. Dennis (February 16, 2020). "The one particular chemical is 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.

 

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WIKIPEDIA – The Free Encyclopedia

(Overview by Dr. Dennis Bogdan)

Wikipedia Facts

 

Topics of 1000 randomly sampled articles (2016).

 

Size of a printed version of Wikipedia (2010).

WIKIPEDIA – The 5th most popular site on the Internet, was launched on January 15, 2001 (1st edit by co-founder Jimmy Wales), is currently published in over 300 languages, has been freely available worldwide for 23 years, 11 months and 13 days – Wikipedia has 64,186,429 total articles (6,931,031 in English (stats); 262,231 in Simple English) – *VITAL ARTICLES*: 10–100–1000; *BEST ARTICLES*: 51,867; *POPULAR ARTICLES*: Last 24 hours; Last Week: Top25; Top5000 – and has (for the English version) 848 administrators and 119,004 active editors (includes over 1,400 stated PhDs and over 130 MDs) – as of 02:00, December 28, 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."

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