beamjockey | At Last, I Have the Means to Launch Washington Dollars into Quasi-Keplerian Orbits

Three cheers for the Fermilab Friends for Science Education!

I expect to be insufferably smug for at least another week.

Way cool! I've wanted one of those things for years.

More accurately, I one one of the meter-wide ones, but The Spouse says "no way."

Maybe you could take up playing the sousaphone, and roll coins into it when you're not practicing?

Hmmm ... given how she vetoed the large vortex thing, I can only imagine her reaction when I get one that has 32 feet of brass behind it. B-)