My wife doesn't want me to make a fountain out of mercury

My wife doesn't want me to make a fountain out of mercury

I was starting to come up with a great plan! Estimating about 30 liters, which is about 400kg, which our floors could handle, and the price would be comparable to a bathroom remodel

@saraislet

that's so unfair. you could have a lovely home decoration that also tells you the temperature...

@saraislet our partner won't let us get a hydrogen maser

My wife doesn't want me to make a fountain out of mercury

I was starting to come up with a great plan! Estimating about 30 liters, which is about 400kg, which our floors could handle, and the price would be comparable to a bathroom remodel

My wife doesn't want me to make a fountain out of mercury

I was starting to come up with a great plan! Estimating about 30 liters, which is about 400kg, which our floors could handle, and the price would be comparable to a bathroom remodel

@atax1a yeah what's up with that?

My wife doesn't want me to make a fountain out of mercury

I was starting to come up with a great plan! Estimating about 30 liters, which is about 400kg, which our floors could handle, and the price would be comparable to a bathroom remodel

My wife doesn't want me to make a fountain out of mercury

I was starting to come up with a great plan! Estimating about 30 liters, which is about 400kg, which our floors could handle, and the price would be comparable to a bathroom remodel

Calder's mercury fountain in Barcelona:
https://youtu.be/Q35_zuffGqk

@saraislet aPPARENTLY we don't need time to 10^-16 precision

@saraislet I said you can have Galinstan, but you didn't like a liquid that wets surfaces.

You know, like water? The stuff regular fountains are made of?

@saraislet
Wait I want to hear more about this plan

What kind of pump do you need? How tall and how wide is a 30L mercury fountain? Were you thinking one spout or many? How will you keep out contaminants? Are there reactions you need to worry about?
@spacehobo

@saraislet@infosec.exchange I think you shouldn't mess around with mercury, as fun as that sounds.

@sophieschmieg @saraislet

anyone could have a fountain with water. maybe a chocolate fountain?

@sophieschmieg @paul_ipv6 chocolate mercury??

@sophieschmieg @paul_ipv6 chocolate mercury??

Calder's mercury fountain in Barcelona:
https://youtu.be/Q35_zuffGqk

@sophieschmieg @paul_ipv6 Paul, help me out here, a girl has needs

@saraislet @sophieschmieg

would be pretty cool to have chocolate that tells you how hot it is.

@sophieschmieg @paul_ipv6 and if you hold it against your skin, it will tell you how hot you are