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beamjockey ([personal profile] beamjockey) wrote2007-05-02 06:09 pm

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

I won a prize.

Two Bucks in Orbit


Three cheers for the Fermilab Friends for Science Education!

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

Re: On Purpose?

[identity profile] tigertoy.livejournal.com 2007-05-03 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, things were quite different in 1971. Canada geese were seen flying over on migration, never stayed for either the summer or winter, and if you told people that they would be a major pest in 3 decades they would have called the guys with the big butterfly nets to put you in a rubber room before you harmed yourself.

Re: On Purpose?

[identity profile] tandw.livejournal.com 2007-05-03 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not a screwup on the order of Bunnies Down Under, at least. It does remind me of how early European settlers apparently weren't sure about local edible plants, so they brought along seeds for something they were certain they could eat: dandelions. Oops.