∇⨯
(nabla x)
The
symbol of the
star fleet.
A symbol every trekky knows and loves. It represent the future we
would all like to be a part of, but don't have a realistic chance of
ever seeing. But hack everybody has the right to dream.
Moto:
“These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing
mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new
civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.”
The
symbol of the dark
side.
Everybody has it, some of us bug people on the internet others build
Death Stars. To each his own.
Moto:
“Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side of the force are they.
Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start
down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume
you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.”
The
symbol of the
engineer.
Represent the practical geek. A person who knows how to change a
light bulb, or on the off-day constructs an electrical monk to do
his/her praying for him.
Moto:
“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the
glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as
it needs to be.”
The
symbol of steam
punk.
Ah, steam punk the weird and nerdy genre of SF. The only place where
people can fulfill there fantasies of giant steam powered race cars
and mechanical computers programmed by Ada Byron herself. Probably
not everybodies cup of tea, but there is just something beautiful
about all those clockworks.
Moto:
“I saw it, felt it, and then I knew, science is power. And this
Steam Castle is the true expression of science and its overwhelming
power.”
The
symbol pi.
There should be no geek who doesn't know this symbol. Some of them
may just know it exits others enter π reciting competitions. No
meter how much you care for it, π is one of the best numbers there
is. It shows us in the most elegant of ways the hidden beauty of
classical mathematics.
Moto:
“3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231753594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063”
The symbol of infinity. Now there's math and than there's math. When we start waving around
with the Möbius strip symbol, we know that things are getting
serious. This one is dedicated to the theoretical mathematics, the
only people I know who think an “infinite dimension space of
infinitively differential functions” is the most normal thing in
this world (but they still can't figure out how to turn off the
air-conditioning).
Moto:
""OH,
I'VE SEEN THE INFINITE, IT'S NOTHING SPECIAL."
"Don't
be daft! you can't see the infinite, it's... infinite!"
"I
HAVE."
"Ok
then, what did it look like?"
"IT'S
BLUE."
"It's
black."
"IT'S
BLUE."
"It's
black!"
"FROM
THE OUTSIDE IT'S BLUE...""
The
symbol of internet. We can't even imagine our lives without it anymore. It's the place
where friendships are made and where ideas come to life. With
certainty the best thing to ever come out of the USA military
complexes. A bit off luck and a blessing from Byte the god of
reliable high speed connections and our life is OK.
Moto:
“SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM,
SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM,
SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM,
SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM,
SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM.”
The
symbol of the atom.
Just to remind the geeks that sometimes even the best of our works
can be misapplied. In the words that the great Stanislaw Lem put
into the mouth of the Galactic President: “Let me see if I got
this correctly, when the people of Earth discovered the power of the
atom they started building bombs. Please tell me that there was a
huge meteor hading for your planet.”.
Moto:
“There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.”
