Proposition Infinity (generally referred to as "Proposition 8"), which banned same-sex marriage in California in November 2008. The title of the episode is derived from Proposition 8, turning the 8 sideways to create the symbol for infinity (∞), hence "Proposition ∞". Though the episode satirizes arguments for same-sex marriage, it leans favorably toward the idea of allowing same-sex marriage. The theme of the episode revisits the social taboo of robosexual relationships presented in earlier episodes "Space Pilot 3000" and "I Dated a Robot". Openly gay actor George Takei of "Star Trek" fame, who married his partner in California during the debate over
Vanish at infinity the same good property. Vanish at infinity In mathematics, a function on a normed vector space is said to vanish at infinity if For example, the function defined on the real line vanishes at infinity. More generally, a function formula_4 on a locally compact space (which may not have a norm) vanishes at infinity if, given any positive number formula_5, there is a compact subset formula_6 such that whenever the point formula_8 lies outside of formula_6. In other words, for each positive number formula_5 the set formula_11 is compact. For a given locally compact space formula_12, the set of such