Tonight, as midnight approaches, and the ball drops in Times Square to usher in 2013, many celebrants will be drinking champagne.

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Davis hits first, from the back tees of the TPC Scottsdale Stadium course. (We amateurs will hit from the middle tees.) He effortlessly drops the ball in center of the fairway, nearly 300 yards away.

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The hope here is that a huge business can provide the support and expertise needed to keep our project going, and that it will survive in institutional memory--even if the employee in charge of it today drops the ball, someone else will pick it up.

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Selenium then melted around those drops, which completely dissolved away, leaving a melted selenium ball with a hole in the middle.

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