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Riffsyphon1024
Steven in his natural habitat
Conservation status
Critically endangered, possibly extinct
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Family:	Hominidae
Genus:	Homo
Species:	H. sapien
Subspecies:	dorkus
Binomial name
Homo sapien dorkus

Hello fellow Wikipedians, my name is Steven. Pardon the mess.

I am a college student in Clarksville, Tennessee, born roughly 200 years after its founding. I currently attend Austin Peay State University and see something along the lines of geology, planetary geology, areology, mineralogy, extrasolar planets, or other related stuff for a career. The only problem is that my mind changes faster than I can catch up to it, and I'm suddenly into something else, however I seem quite interested in these things as a whole.

I also have a fascination with space exploration in general, which would make me an advocate for space and I have created both a timeline and a Solar System Terrestrial Body Comparison Chart, within my subpages at Wikipedia:

• Space exploration timeline
• Solar system terrestrial comparison
• Kardashev Timeline
• Outer solar system
• Galactic mapping project

I was there the day we lost Pluto.

I need to look into making a geological/archao/historic timeline of some sort.

[edit] History

Where I was in summer 2006 (not my image)

I became a Wikipedian on January 4, 2005, after my obsessive-control-freakishness took over and I became instantaneously addicted. However, this conflicted with my studies and threatened to shut me down altogether. I contributed whenever, but there was no given time or date I would be around.

I tried to be as loyal to Wikipedia as I could, giving information as accurate as possible. I've created articles, and performed some major contributing to some, while on others, maybe only a minor addition, subtraction, or other kind of edit was needed. If I saw a spelling or grammatical error, or just flat out typo, or need for a change on wording or to prevent plagiarism, I edited it also. I also graded and voted on certain articles submitted for deletion.

I have awarded Kaldari the Tireless Contributor Barnstar for his relentless work on all things Nashville, Tennessee.

When I'm not submitting information here, I can be found as an co-founder/administrator on Wookieepedia.

I was the primary contributor to the Clarksville, Tennessee until more recent edits have occurred, Myspace (early on), and formerly Planets of Star Wars.

And because I was nuts about Star Wars (and still am), I also linked all the main Star Wars lists together, including: Planets of Star Wars, List of Star Wars races, and my created articles: Sectors of Star Wars, Systems of Star Wars, and Cities of Star Wars. The goal was to have everything grouped as one entity but different subjects go to different articles. On March 9, 2005, a particular Wikipedian decided to engage in Vfd tactics against minor Star Wars articles, known as the Great LucasCruft Purge, in which I desperately attempted to keep them all alive. Since Wookieepedia was created just hours after this event, and just in time (however totally oblivious to the Purge), those particular articles were moved into the new Wiki where they now live carefree lives without persecution or fear of deletion. Furthermore I would cease to help Wikipedia with its Star Wars articles in favor of the new wiki and its specialized treatment of them. However, I still do work on many other subjects on Wikipedia.

See Also: My User Page at Wookieepedia.

NOTE: Wookieepedia has taken much more of my time away from Wikipedia, so that I could concentrate on it. I may not reply to all messages or upkeep at the same pace that I used to. Much focus is still needed on Wikipedia's assortment of Star Wars articles. May The Force Be With You Wikipedians.

Another side project I started is the Back to the Future Wiki

[edit] Vacation

In June 2006, I went on a vacation up north to Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Along the way I visited these places in Illinois: Peoria (during massive road construction), the Quad Cities, and Galena. In Iowa: Dubuque. In Wisconsin: Platteville and The Mining Museum, Dodgeville, Wisconsin Dells, La Crosse and Grandad Bluff, Onalaska, Sparta, Adams-Friendship and Friendship Mound and Roche-A-Cri Mound, Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point, Oshkosh, Appleton and Lake Winnebago, Green Bay and Lambeau Field, Crivitz, and Florence. In Minnesota: La Crescent. In Michigan: Iron Mountain, Crystal Falls, Iron River (although by accident), L'Anse, Baraga, Houghton and the Arthur E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Hancock and the Quincy Mine, Ishpeming, Marquette, Munising, Sault Ste. Marie and the Soo Locks, and Mackinac Bridge.

In August, I went on another trip to Franklin, North Carolina to find some corundum varities: rubies and sapphires.

In October, I went to Magnet Cove, Arkansas to find titanium oxides, magnetite, and aegirine. Also visited was Hot Springs, the Crater of Diamonds State Park, and Texarkana, Texas.

In November, I went to Dahlonega, Georgia, by way of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Dalton, Georgia. On the way back, the road north to Blairsville went onto Blood Mountain, and afterward, U.S. Highway 64 paralleled the Ocoee River.

In December, Christmas Vacation took me along Interstate 40 from Nashville, Tennessee to Raleigh, North Carolina and U.S. Highway 70 from Raleigh to New Bern.

In early May 2007, I went to the Black Hills of South Dakota and Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming. From the Quad Cities, the trip passed the newly-visited cities of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Albert Lea and Blue Earth in Minnesota, past Sioux Falls, to Mitchell and the Mitchell Corn Palace, out to Chamberlain, South Dakota along the Missouri River, to Wall along The Wall of the Badlands, and finally Rapid City. I visited my paleotologist friend at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Within the Black Hills, I visited Keystone, Hill City, Custer, Deadwood, and Lead. Around the Hills, I visited Sturgis (during offseason of course) and Spearfish. Landmarks within the Hills visited include Mount Rushmore, Custer State Park, Homestake Gold Mine, Spearfish Canyon, and the Needles Highway. Into Wyoming, I saw the location of the Vore Buffalo Run atop the Spearfish Formation. We pulled off Interstate 90 at Sundance and headed for Devils Tower.

After the trip out west, I flew even farther out west to Los Angeles, California for the Star Wars convention Celebration IV on May 23, 2007. I stayed in Pasadena, and visited downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Echo Park, Bel Air. Particular locations included the La Brea Tar Pits, UCLA, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I rode on the Santa Monica Freeway and the San Bernardino Freeway ("The 10"), "The 405", the Hollywood Freeway ("The 101"), the Glendale Freeway, and the Pasadena Freeway ("The 110"), as well as Santa Monica Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard, and Colorado Boulevard.

For 2008, I attended a geology field camp through the University at Buffalo (UB). We rendezvoused at Denver, Colorado and departed for the Front Range the following day. The first stop was the famous roadcut of the Morrison Formation off Interstate 70. From there, we visited Red Rocks Park, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and the town of Morrison before getting back on I-70 and heading west. We climbed the Front Range all the way to the Eisenhower Tunnel at 11,158 ft. From there we went down past Frisco and Silverthorne, then Vail. We entered Glenwood Canyon and stopped at a rest area. We passed Glenwood Springs, stopped in Rifle, and passed Grand Mesa as I-70 turned into Grand Valley. The area of our interest was Grand Junction-Fruita. Our map sites were at Gunnison Bluffs and Prairie Canyon. We also went through Mack and Redlands. After one week, we headed into Unaweep Canyon on the way to Utah and the Paradox Basin, first hitting the towns of Whitewater, Gateway, and detouring before Uravan. We saw Sinbad Valley and took a shortcut into Paradox Valley where we saw Paradox 1. From there we checked out a copper mine and drove into Utah, through the La Sal Mountains. We stopped at La Sal and past Wilson Arch and Newspaper Rock to Dugout Ranch. Our map site was Davis Canyon near Lavender Canyon south of the Canyonlands National Park. Cathedral Butte was a landmark to use at the map site. After seeing the Needles District, we went south through Monticello, Blanding, and Comb Wash on our way to Natural Bridges National Monument and the Goosenecks State Park near Mexican Hat. Moab was a hotel night, and we visited Arches National Park. Our van chose to hike 1.5 miles to Delicate Arch and Landscape Arch. Heading north the next day, we jumped on I-70 temporarily to reach Green River, and up to Price before heading into Indian Canyon towards Roosevelt and Vernal. Our third campsite was at Split Mountain in Dinosaur National Monument. Our map area was in Rainbow Valley, a giant anticlinal structure. After we finished up there, it was through Dinosaur, Craig, Steamboat Springs, and Walden that we entered Wyoming and stopped in Laramie for the night. The next day we headed for the Shirley Basin and the Q Creek Ranch to map the Freezeout Hills. When the trip was finally over, we drove back into Colorado through Fort Collins and finished at Denver International Airport.

In May 2009, I went up Interstate 81 into Virginia and reached the towns of Wytheville, Roanoke, Staunton, Woodstock, and Winchester. Then came Martinsburg, West Virginia and Hagerstown, Maryland before entering Pennsylvania and stopping at Chambersburg for the night. We then drove U.S. Highway 30 (Lincoln Highway) to Gettysburg to take the Auto Tour along Seminary Ridge and to Little Round Top, before ending at the High Water Mark of the Confederacy at the Copse of Trees where Pickett's Charge failed. From Gettysburg, we drove south back into Maryland at Emmitsburg, and then drove east to Taneytown before reaching Baltimore. On the way back, we drove on Interstate 70 past Frederick and intersected Interstate 81 at Hagerstown. We drove the night, and jumped on Interstate 68 at Hancock towards Cumberland and Frostburg but not before tackling the mighty Alleghenies and Sideling Hill (however in the dark could not see the massive geologic roadcut). We came out on the other side nearing Morgantown, West Virginia where we merged with Interstate 79 and went past Fairmont and Clarksburg before reaching the capital of Charleston. From there, we jumped on Interstate 64 towards Kentucky where we passed Ashland and worked our way around Lexington. In a tired stupor, we barely made it home.

Whew. I sure do get around.

[edit] Wikipedia Quotes

This is from a VFD of Septenquinquagintillion.

10174 equals 2578.015 so if the number of articles in Wikipedia doubled every day, it would take about one year and seven months to reach a septenquinquagintillion articles. If a disk drive can store 200 gigabytes and an average article consumes 2000 bytes then a disk drive can store 100 million articles, so this would require (10166 ten) quattuorquinquagintillion disk drives, at a cost of approximately (10168 1.0) quinquinquagintillion dollars. The world GNP is approximately 30000 billion U.S. dollars so that is about 3 X 10154 world GNP's. If the entire world was willing to contribute its entire output to the project it could do so in 3 quinquagintillion years. If we rely on Wikimedia fundraisers it will take longer, so I suggest that Jimbo tell them to get started right away. (Counting on figures) Mumble... universe lifetimes... atomic radii... Archimedes and sand grains... Unless we can broaden the categories for speedy deletion, the VfD for a septenquinquagintillion-article Wikipedia will probably require something better than dialup.

—Dpbsmith, March 11, 2005

[edit] Notes

Sunset on some other planet going around some other star in some other galaxy.

Mineralogy of Mars: (NOT ORIGINAL RESEARCH)

• Atmosphere
  • 95% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen, 1.6% argon, and traces of oxygen and water. Methane found in 2004.
• Ground
  • Ice (H2O) found at Green Valley by Phoenix lander.
  • Silicon as high content in rocks studied by the Sojourner rover of Mars Pathfinder, and also in soils at Gusev
  • Carbon dioxide CO₂ "dry ice" at poles
  • Hematite (Fe₂O₃) (iron oxide)
    • Found in a layered sedimentary rock formation approximately 200 meters thick
  • Goethite (FeOOH) (hydrous iron oxide)
  • Jarosite (KFe₃(OH)₆(SO₄)₂) (hydrous potassium iron sulfate)
  • Sulfur (S) and sulfosalts (possibly containing arsenic (Ar) or antimony (Sb)?)
  • A calcium sulfate (CaSO₄) (Spirit at "Halley")
  • Bromine (Br)
  • Chlorine (Cl) in soils
  • Zinc (Zn) in soils
  • Nickel (Ni) in soils
  • Phosphorus (P) in rocks on Cumberland Ridge on Husband Hill
  • Magnesium sulfate (MgSO₄) in sulfatic salts as cement at Husband Hill
  • Olivine ((Mg, Fe)₂SiO₄) found by MGS
• Rocks
  • Basalt and lots of it, some similar to andesites on Earth
  • Iron-rich meteorites (such as Heat Shield Rock by Opportunity and very probably "Allan Hills" and "Zhong Chang" by Spirit at "Low Ridge"
  • Phil Christensen concluded that Mars Global Surveyor spectra showed traces of magnesium carbonate, perhaps up to 2% over Mars
  • Spirit's spectrometer showed 3-5% of carbonates on the surface, with clear spectral lines too weak for MGS to pick up

Sources: JPL Mars Rovers site, Astronomy April 2004 Article by Bruce Moomaw

MÖSSBAUER is your friend.

I believe anyone that has a mineral named after them, regardless of the rarity of the mineral, should get an article. Usually they're dead already.

I wish there were more annotated nebula maps like this.

When I met Dr. Hap McSween, planetary geologist, geochemist and meteorite researcher at UTK, I never knew the man had an asteroid (5223 McSween, 1981 EX6) named after him!

NEWS FLASH: Opportunity has arrived at Victoria Crater

The best resolution ever by any Mars orbiter is shown in File:PIA08813.jpg of Victoria. One can make out individual rocks as well as the Opportunity rover.

[edit] Contributions and Other Things

[edit] By the Numbers

Number of edits since January 4, 2005 (as of March 21, 2005) -- 2397

Get updates at this addictive link

Official count of all namespace edits (as of March 9, 2005) placed me at 910 with 1976 edits. My position increased 1108 places.

[edit] Articles that I have created:

• Companies: Vulcan Corporation, Trane, Mills Corporation, McFarlane Toys, and Books-A-Million
• Geographical: Port Royal State Park, Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee, Tennessee State Route 840, Life & Casualty Tower, Dunbar Cave State Park, List of Tennessee state highways, Tennessee Department of Transportation, Clarksville-Hopkinsville metropolitan statistical area, Briley Parkway, Opry Mills, Port Royal, Tennessee, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, Castalian Springs, Tennessee
• Geology/Mineralogy: Seamanite, Coon Creek Formation, St. Louis Limestone, Ste. Genevieve Limestone, Girkin Formation, Geology of Tennessee, Magnet Cove Igneous Complex
• Mars: Apollo 1 Hills, Argo (crater) (as 198.146.62.170), Vostok (crater), Victoria (crater), and Beagle (crater)
• Music: Breaking Benjamin (as 65.1.116.120), Alter Bridge (band), We Are Not Alone (album), Saturate (album), Theory Of A Deadman, Theory Of A Deadman (album), Gasoline (album), The Calm That Killed the Storm, and Jinx (album)
• People: Jeff Purvis, John Montgomery (early American), Robert Loftin Newman, Harry Galbreath, Tom Anderson (MySpace) (what monster of an article have I created?), Ryan Shoulders, Gretchen Cordy, Wayne Pygram, Harold Y. McSween, and Gregory W. Henry
• Star Wars: Repulsorlift, Anchorhead, Nar Shaddaa, Sectors of Star Wars, Systems of Star Wars, Cities of Star Wars, Moons of Star Wars, General Maximilian Veers (this is really a shiftover from Minor characters in Star Wars), Koensayr, World Devastator, Creatures of Star Wars, and The Maw
  • See Also Wikicities:c:StarWars:Special:Contributions/Riffsyphon1024
• Other: Mr. Fusion

[edit] Articles that I have contributed to:

• Major:
  • Geographical: Clarksville, Tennessee (primary contributor), Montgomery County, Tennessee, Austin Peay State University, Cumberland City, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, BellSouth Building (Nashville), Bicentennial Mall State Park, Tennessee State Route 374, and Whites Creek, Tennessee
  • Mars: Spirit rover, Opportunity rover, Fram (crater), and Endurance (crater)
  • Music: Quarashi
  • People: Geoffrey Marcy, Frank Sutton, and Steve Squyres (merged info from my own mistake, Steven Squyres)
  • Star Wars: Star Wars, Utapau (before it was merged), Coruscant, Manaan, Naboo, Tatooine, Dagobah, Kamino, Planets of Star Wars (I am responsible for alot of linking within and to this article), Star Wars: Battlefront, Sarlacc, List of Star Wars races (which included moving information over from Minor races in Star Wars), Star Wars galaxy, Sun Crusher, and AT-AT
  • Other: Myspace (the primary contributor here), The Weather Channel, List of meteorologists, List of stars with confirmed extrasolar planets, Bristol Motor Speedway, The Truman Show, Popular Science (magazine), Greenwood (disambig), Google Maps, American Idol, and List of planetary nebulae
• Minor:
  • Dates and Years: January 26, 2005, 2029 October 24, October 26, and January 14
  • Geographical: Cumberland River, Red River (Tennessee-Kentucky), Stewart County, Tennessee, Mount Everest, University of Tennessee, Little Egypt (region), U.S. Highway 79, and List of interesting or unusual place names
  • Mars: Sleepy Hollow (Mars), Eagle (crater), and Heat Shield Rock
  • Music: Incubus, Year of the Spider, Tenacious D, Papa Roach, Infest, lovehatetragedy, Getting Away With Murder, Steal This Album!, and Roadrunner Records
  • People (both real and fictional): George Rogers Clark, Henry Jones, Brandon Stokley, Willem Dafoe, Gilbert Gottfried, Jon Gruden, Faith Hill, Captain Jack Sparrow, Alex Borstein, Jack Palance, Ebenezer Scrooge, Robert Smith (musician), Jimmy Kimmel, Keira Knightley, Spike Jonze, Jaime Bergman, Johan van der Smut (Goldmember), and Stephen Robinson
  • Star Wars: Tusken Raiders, Twi'lek, Lando Calrissian, Cloud City, Space slug, Astromech droid, Kuat Drive Yards, Jek Porkins, Minor characters in Star Wars, Temuera Morrison, San Hill, Minor droids in Star Wars, Slave I, and Geonosis
  • Other: SimCity 4, Adobe Systems, Battlebots, Comedy Central, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Nineteen Eighty-four, Space burial, List of websites, Planet killer, The Fifth Element, Ecumenopolis, Triad, Smilodon, Generation Y, List of songs whose title includes geographical names, List of world leaders, Gigawatt, Mountain Dew, Flux capacitor, Money (magazine), Gamble House, 2004 MN4, List of characters in Jurassic Park , Osiris (planet), TrES-1, List of most common surnames, and Copper

[edit] Articles that I have cleaned up (aka Wikipedian Beautification):

• Broken River Cave, Los Angeles County, California (the Sites of Interest section), the chronology of Robert Ripley, Riverside International Raceway, Lookout Mountain, Maestro (Created a disambiguation page and redirected the Maestro software to Maestro (software)), Six Flags Magic Mountain, Brandon Boyd, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (wikifyed dates), Rob Cesternino, Vjun, Deno Andrews, Karen McDougal, Sango, Tennessee, Carrie Underwood, Kyp Durron, Transmission tower, Cursed, a section of Dubai, Whulshootseed, Pequannock, and Leave A Whisper
• Merged Centennial (town) with Centennial (city)

[edit] Category Pages created:

• Category:Hills on Mars, Category:Nashville, Category:Star Wars cities , Category:State park stubs, Category:Star Wars companies, Category:Tennessee state highways, and Category:Geologic formations

[edit] Stub Templates created:

• Template:State park-stub

My current stress level

[edit] Vfd Pages started:

1. Vfd/À la folie... pas du tout (RESULT:Redirect)
2. Vfd/Law review (RESULT:Keep)
3. Vfd/Fisher & Hansen (RESULT:Delete)
4. Vfd/GreaterSTUFF (RESULT:Delete)
5. Vfd/How to tell if your child is a hacker (RESULT:Speedy-delete)
6. Vfd/Lag screw (RESULT:Delete)
7. Vfd/Timeline of social developments (RESULT:Delete)
8. Vfd/Peanut Foot (RESULT:Delete)
9. Vfd/MOOism (RESULT:Keep)
10. Vfd/MJ morning show (RESULT:Delete)
11. Vfd/Bolivian Space Program (RESULT:Delete)
12. Vfd/Philip Huntoon (RESULT:Keep)
13. Vfd/Jim geraghty (RESULT:Keep)
14. Vfd/Demon hunters (RESULT:Delete)
15. Vfd/Sprintwich (RESULT:Delete)
16. Vfd/Peter Palumbo (RESULT:Keep)
17. Vfd/Cfmb (RESULT:Keep and move to CFMB)
18. Vfd/Igcc (RESULT:move to IGCC and disambig)
19. Vfd/C the band (RESULT:Delete)
20. Vfd/Southwest Boulevard (RESULT:Delete)
21. Vfd/Septenquinquagintillion (RESULT:Delete)
22. Vfd/Bejamin Franklin High School (RESULT:No consensus)
23. Vfd/Mark Dever (RESULT:Delete)
24. Vfd/Emotastic (RESULT:Delete)

This currently gives me a 57.14% Delete Rating.

Link to Template:VfDFooter

[edit] Major Vfd Pages participated in (keeping an eye on):

• Vfd/Ashlee Simpson U.S. tour, 2005 (RESULT:Delete:)
• Vfd/Even Piell (I merged it with Minor Jedi characters in Star Wars#Piell, Even)
• Vfd/Trade Federation PAC (RESULT:Delete - however temporarily reinstated for me to add it to SWW)
• Vfd/Star Trek versus Star Wars (recount) (RESULT:Keep)
• Vfd/List of shopping malls {RESULT:Keep)
• Vfd/Freak on a Leash (leaning towards keep)
• Vfd/Episcopal High School (RESULT:Keep)

[edit] SW Vfds

These SW articles/topics/concepts were watched to ensure that they withhold against the brutality of one GRider and have all been moved to Wookieepedia:

1. Vfd/Tyvokka (RESULT:Keep)
2. Vfd/Kylantha (RESULT:Delete, however content exists in Naboo)
3. Vfd/Quarren Isolation League (RESULT:Merged to Minor Star Wars organisations)
4. Vfd/Operation Strike Fear (RESULT:Merged to Galactic Civil War
5. Vfd/Repulsorlift (RESULT:Keep)
6. Vfd/Rhen Var (RESULT:Merged to Planets of Star Wars)
7. Vfd/Darth Traya (RESULT:Keep)
8. Vfd/TX-130s fighter tank (RESULT:Merge, however it still retains an article)
9. Vfd/Rothana Heavy Engineering (merged to Kuat Drive Yards)
10. Vfd/Order D6-66 (RESULT:Delete, however it exists on Wookieepedia now)
11. Vfd/Nubian Design Collective (RESULT:Keep, amazingly)
12. Vfd/Commander Bly (RESULT:Merge)
13. Vfd/Kor Chokk (RESULT:No consensus -- keep)
14. Vfd/Thud Bug (RESULT:Merge, however it still retains an article)
15. Vfd/Great Jedi Purge (RESULT:Keep)
16. Vfd/San Hill (RESULT:Keep)
17. Vfd/The last Handmaiden (RESULT:Merge)
18. Vfd/Ainlee Teem (RESULT:Merge)
19. Vfd/Seven forms of lightsaber combat (RESULT:Moved to Lightsaber combat)
20. Vfd/Rakamat (leaning towards merge}
21. Vfd/SuperShadow (RESULT:Keep)

This last Vfd was intiated by me in order to keep a Wookieepedia project off Wikipedia.

1. List of moffs (RESULT:Delete)

It's truly a battle between "Wikipedia is not paper" and "Wikipedia is not a general knowledge directory".

[edit] My Images

Bold denotes better images. Red denotes deleted images. It's obvious that I suck at choosing appropriate images.

• File:Apollo1hillsPIA05155.jpg, File:Tva powerplant.jpg, File:Steve36.JPG, File:Steve57.JPG, File:Grissom hill2.JPG, File:Sol326 from149-med.jpg, File:Pot of gold-Close-med.jpg, File:Aldebaran.PNG, File:MERB outcrop map 01-mw-01-labels-B041R1 br.jpg, File:Starslug.gif, File:Starslug2.jpg, File:Ryan shoulders.jpg, File:Gretchen cordy.jpg, File:Elizabeth Hasselbeck.jpg, File:Rob cesternino.jpg, File:Ahto city.jpg, File:Sun crusher.jpg, File:Sun crusher.GIF, File:Kamino Tipoca City.JPG, File:Jek porkins.jpg, File:Geonosis 1.jpg, File:Frank Sutton tvweek.jpg, File:Galaxymap1.jpg, File:General veers.jpg, File:Faithhill-breathe.jpg, File:R4 p17.jpg, File:JimmyKimmel.jpg, File:Moon3.jpg, File:Moon4.jpg, File:Brandon boyd incubus.jpg, File:Devastators.jpg, File:Mynock.jpg, File:Acklay2.jpg File:Inherit The Wind.jpg, File:Kyp Durron.jpg, File:Lovehatetragedy.jpg, File:Infest.jpg, File:Gettingawaywithmurder.jpg, File:Papa roach.jpg, File:State Route 840.gif, File:840 pic2.jpg, File:TDOT-Logo.gif, File:Trumanshow.jpg, File:AustinPeay5.gif, File:Ap-logo.gif, File:Landing Craft.jpg, File:ThisTypeOfThinkingCouldDoUsIn.jpg, File:We Are Not Alone.jpg, File:Steven squyres backdrop.jpg, File:Nexu.jpg, File:Fermilab.jpg, File:Squyres.gif, File:Naturaliste crater site A47 cyl-med.jpg, File:Flux1.jpg, File:Saturate.jpg, File:Titans coliseum.jpg, File:Antennae galaxies.jpg, File:Stealthisalbum.jpg, File:Mrfusion.jpg, File:Money-magazine-cover.jpg, File:Popsci1.gif, File:Popsci2.jpg, File:Popsci3.jpg, File:Popsci4.gif, File:Popsci5.jpg, File:Popsci6.jpg, File:Popsci7.jpg, File:Popsci9.jpg, File:Clarksville-Hopkinsville-MSA.JPG, File:Site B50 vostokcrater-cyl-med.jpg, File:MERB Map 383-540-860.jpg, File:Cat schwartz techtv crop.jpg, File:Jinx album.jpg, File:Grandadbluff.jpg, File:Onalaska.jpg, File:Beagle MOC sol855-B863R1 br2.jpg, File:Friendshipmound.JPG, File:Grandad Bluff La Crosse View.jpg, File:Austin Peay Browning Building.jpg, File:Casey Jones home.jpg

It's not looking too good...

I proposed a few barnstars to Wikipedia.

Barnstar Atom for Science Award	10-point Barnstar as the Wikipedian Medal of Honor?	Oddball eyeball barnstar	Oddball (green version)
Oddball (darker green) (Winner of Oddball Barnstar)	Caesar History Barnstar	Einstein Science/Math Barnstar	Ancient Ruin History Barnstar
Ancient Ruin History Barnstar (Version 2)	Ancient Ruin History Barnstar (Version 3)	Radioactive Science barnstar

All Posted at Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals.

Mind Benders logo

My proposal for the Mind Benders Logo that won:

[edit] Helpful Wikipedian Links

Wikipedia:Category | Wikipedia:Image copyright tags | Wikipedia:Deletion policy | Wikipedia:Template messages/Stubs Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version | Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress | Wikipedia:Speedy deletions | Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board Wikipedia:Article improvement drive | Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by fields of interest | Wikipedia:Great editing in progress User:Dpbsmith/BEEFSTEW (Basic Education Evaluation Form and Standardized Test for Evaluating Worthiness) Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source 2005 (just goes to show that Wikipedia is becoming more and more cited) Wikipedia:To-do list | Wikipedia:Village pump | Wikipedia:What's in, what's out Wikipedia:WikiProject | Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects | Wikipedia:Wikiproject Albums

[edit] Minor Wikipedian accomplishments

• First Upload (File:Apollo1hillsPIA05155.jpg)
• First Vfd on January 29, 2005 (Minor races in Star Wars)(GOT IT MERGED)
• First prerequisite for Wikipediholics: I have run into a page I Vfd voted on via Random Page. (March 13, 2005)
• Another two random page finds: Sharp Spiral and Planetary science on April 9, 2005

[edit] Barnstars

		The Original Barnstar
		I noticed that your edits were impressive and so I've decided to award you this Original barnstar! Wikidudeman (talk) 08:38, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Things to Do

The coolest things I find on Wikipedia.

• Work on Spirit and Opportunity mission pages. (WHEN NEWS GIVEN)
• Add more minerals
• Add more local information
• Add more geological information

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for User:Riffsyphon1024:
Create Theory Of A Deadman McFarlane Toys Help with Spirit rover timeline and Opportunity rover timeline

Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: Mikel Lejarza, Road Runner a Go-Go, Sayadaw, Jonathon Young (actor), Sikandar Khan Khoso, More...
• Copyedit: Walkout, DJ IDeaL, Shriniwas Narwekar, Yanabi, Margaret Henderson, More...
• Update: Bob Hope (Emmerdale), Irma Anderson, Militaria, Toni Daggert, Daz Eden, More...
• Style: Sarrukh, Christopher Isherwood, J-Wave, Washington, Tyne and Wear, Johan Sebastiaan Ploem, More...
• Cleanup: Beyond All Sense 2005, Alton, Rhode Island, Tripod (photography), Sakkuth, Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive, More...
• Verify: Ibong Adarna (mythology), Oil Campaign targets of World War II, Focke-Wulf Ta 152, Palestinian Jew, Perez's Frog, More...
• Neutrality: Furir, Driving Examiner (United Kingdom), Nandigram, Sukhminderpal Grewal, Howard Candler, More...
• Original research: Five of Swords, Sink the Belgrano!, The Lillywhite Sessions, Municipal Darwinism, Iraqi insurgency, More...
• Merge: Opening Ceremony of the 11th National Games of the People's Republic of China, Spinor field, East Asian monsoon, Signal-to-quantization-noise ratio, Air brake (aircraft), More...
• Split: Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, Audio timescale-pitch modification, Politics of Italy, Fédération Nationale du Scoutisme Marocain, The Psychedelic Furs, More...
• Stubs: Exit Glacier, Komusō, List of Anglican devotional societies, L'Art d'être grand-père, National and Provincial State Archives (Belgium), More...
• Expand: Volunteer military, Strippergate (Seattle), Alchemical Studies, Earl Amyotte, Herbert Aptheker, More...
• Article deletion discussions: Hope for the Hopeless, Ratpoison (2nd nomination), Diamond Sangha, BT Radianz, Stroud Consulting, More...
• Article Requests: Binary optics, Crandall syndrome, Muchinga Escarpment, José Agustín Arango, Likani Palace, More...
• Image Requests: Blue Mouse Theatre, Arnulfo Arias, Lamont Harp, Goldfinger banana, Dongzhi Festival, More...
• Mediation Cabal: Turks in Bulgaria, Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, Global Warming, WP:OUTCOMES, Wikipedia:Manual of Style, Jim Bell, Longevity myths, or Help mediate an open case!

[edit] Wikipedians of Interest

Userboxes
This user is male.
24 This user is 24 years old.
APSU This user attends or is an alumnus of Austin Peay State University.
Wookiee This user is a Wookieepedian.
SW WP This user is sorta a member of the Star Wars WikiProject one way or another.
This user is a member of WikiProject Geology.
This user is a member of the Mars WikiProject.
This user is a member of the Astronomical Object WikiProject.
Y This user is a member of Generation Y.
2,000+ This user has made over 2,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
gk This user is a geek.
This user is an undergraduate student majoring in Geology.
This user is a Scorpio.
This user is left-handed.
STAR WARS This user is a Star Wars fan.
This user enjoys rock music.
6 C 12.011 This user is made out of Carbon.
This user enjoys skygazing and astronomy.
This user has a profile on MySpace.
This user is a roadfan.

[edit] Users to remember

• AlexTheMartian, Alex, Myspace, Los Angeles
• Jedo1507r, Donnie, Myspace, APSU
• Ovni the Furball, Richard, APSU
• Kaldari, Nashville
• Kevin Rector, Nashville
• Rlquall, Middle Tennessee
• Cbarbry Wookieepedia founder/admin
• LtNOWIS Wookieepedia
• QuentinGeorge Wookieepedia admin
• SparqMan Wookieepedia admin
• Shadowtrooper Wookieepedia

[edit] Astronomy Contributors

• Ahoerstemeier
• AstroNomer
• Jeffmedkeff
• Jyril (asteroids, extrasolar planets)
• Hurricane Devon (galaxies)
• Planetary (planetary geology)
• Nickshanks
• Urhixidur
• Volcanopele (Saturnian system)
• Worldtraveller

[edit] Articles That Pique My Interest

Math-oriented:

• Interval (mathematics), Large numbers, Monty Hall problem, Names of large numbers

Science-oriented:

• Asteroid mining, Colonization of the asteroids, Colonization of the Moon, Dyson sphere, Geologic timescale, Geological features of the Solar System, Electrolyte disturbance, Kardashev scale, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, List of minerals, List of noteworthy asteroids, List of particles, List of protosciences, List of stars by constellation, Mars Society, Periodic table (standard), String theory, Standard Model, Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites, United States technological and industrial history, Timeline of the future in forecasts, Stars and planetary systems in fiction

Geographical, Architectural, and Spatial:

• Burj Dubai, Chicagoland, Crater of Diamonds, Greater Los Angeles Area, Interstate Highway, List of metropolitan areas by population, List of places with fewer than ten people, Sealand (utterly fascinating), Trump Tower Chicago, World population, Category:Urban studies and planning

Internet:

• Google bomb, Rachelle Waterman, Wikimapia

Star Wars:

• Dates in Star Wars
• List of Imperial personnel

Other:

• Awards and decorations of the United States military, Fictional chemical substance, Fuck, Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions, List of billionaires, List of ethnic slurs (not that I promote this), List of FHM 100 Sexiest Women, List of multiracial people, List of Playboy models, Mega-City One, Nerdcore hip hop, -phobia, Regional accents of English speakers, Sexual slang, and List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense, Wikipedia:Wikistory, Wikipedia RSS New Article Feed

[edit] Wikipedia can Influence a Person to Purchase New Things

Use when obtained.

• Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets (September 1997) by John S. Lewis
  • Lewis makes a prediction that the abundant resources of the solar system, including limitless solar energy (not counting the limitless energy of Sol) could support a vast civilization of 10,000,000 billion people (or 10 quadrillion people). He argues that shortage of resources is "...an illusion born of ignorance."
  • According to Asteroid mining, "In 2004, the world production of iron ore exceeded 1,000 million metric tons. In comparison, a comparatively small M-type asteroid with a mean diameter of 1 km could contain more than 2,000 million metric tons of iron-nickel ore, or two to three times the annual production for 2004. The asteroid 16 Psyche is believed to contain 1.7×10¹⁹ kg of iron-nickel (or 170,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 170 quintillion kg), which could supply the 2004 world production requirement for several million years. A small portion of the extracted material would also contain precious metals, although these would likely be more difficult to extract."
• The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (1996) by Robert Zubrin
• Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (2007) by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• How to Live On Mars by Robert Zubrin (acquired)

[edit] Other stuff

American football players with appropriate aggressive-sounding or football-related names:

• David Akers
• Jeff Backus
• "Boss" Bailey
• "Champ" Bailey
• Travarous Bain
• "Dek" Bake
• Tra Battle
• Jacob Bender
• H. B. Blades
• Patrick Body
• Rocky Boiman
• Kevin Boss
• Correll Buckhalter
• Melvin Bullitt
• Keith Bullock
• Tim Bulman
• Anthony Cannon
• Billy Cannon
• Rock Cartwright
• Brandon Chillar
• Alge Crumpler
• "Buster" Davis
• Jon Dekker
• Na'il Diggs
• Donald Driver
• Mike Espy
• Larry Foote
• Jamaal Fudge
• Scott Fujita
• Chris Gocong
• Nick Goings
• "Tuff" Harris
• Todd Heap
• Pacino Horne
• Clint Ingram
• David Irons
• Kenny Irons
• Quentin Jammer
• "Tank" Johnson
• Joe Jurevicius
• Winston Justice
• Brad Kassell
• Jevon Kearse
• Cedric Killings
• Ethan Kilmer
• Mike Leach
• Vonta Leach
• Ryan Longwell
• John Lynch
• Marshawn Lynch
• Fontel Mines
• Jerious Norwood
• Logan Payne
• Justin Peelle
• Julius Peppers
• Antonio Pierce
• Zach Pillar
• Brady Poppinga
• Kurt Quarterman
• Neil Rackers
• Jason Rader
• Nick Roach
• Samari Rolle
• Israel Route
• Jon Runyan
• T. J. Rushing
• Josh Savage
• Jeremy Shockey
• D. J. Shockley
• Hunter Smith
• Marcus Spears
• Paul Spicer
• Greg Spires
• Jason Spitz
• Montavious Stanley
• Darnell Stapleton
• Syndric Steptoe
• Jon Stinchcomb
• Omar Stoutmire
• James Thrash
• Amani Toomer
• Reggie Torbor
• Jeremy Trueblood
• Ben Troupe
• Nick Turnbull
• "Tank" Tyler
• Guy Whimper
• "Tank" Williams
• Coy Wire
• Garrett Wolfe
• Ashton Youboty

[edit] Thanks

Another awesome star chart map.

• Thanks to Mr. Cookie and customyspace for info and stats on Myspace and its creator.
• Thanks to Cbarbry for really getting things going on Wookieepedia.

[edit] Disruptions of This Page

(Don't even try it people)

• Page edited by 128.59.20.200 on January 17, 2005.
• Page vandalized by 138.67.79.161 on February 28, 2005.
• Page redirected to Pile of Manure by Kokoloko on March 5, 2005.

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