Absolute Johannes factotum
- SCP-3296 (?)
- SCP-3296 refers to a Foundation-created satellite (SCP-3296-A) orbiting Earth and the human inside it (SCP-3296-B), launched in 2000 as part of the "Milliard Project." The satellite was designed to keep the human alive indefinitely, and the human, who underwent extensive brain surgery as an infant to become extremely sensitive to suggestion, was meant to act as an early warning system for dangerous reality-bending entities or events coming from space. This project was approved despite ethical concerns about using infants. After nearly two decades in orbit, SCP-3296-B began sending fragmented, panicked messages describing strange, bird-like attacks and other anomalies, before going silent. The satellite now shows no signs of life from the human, only feathers on its exterior, and the SCP has been reclassified as "Neutralized."
- Cox–Zucker machine (?)
- The Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm in arithmetic geometry, developed by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker, that determines if a given set of sections forms a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface. The algorithm was first published in 1979, and its name, which sounds like an obscenity, was a deliberate choice by the authors, who conceived the idea as graduate students to coauthor a paper for this specific joke.