Domino Day '02 Ends with a New World Record

Bobson writes "It took 89 people 8 weeks to set up 4000000(4e6) domino pieces for an attempted World Record. The last piece was set at 21:00 CET(Central European Time) by a Backstreet Boy. Jim somebody... Anyhow said piece started of over 90 minutes of an amazing domino avalanche show. It is one of the top hacking feats I've had the privilege to witness. This time Live on TV. I hope tapes (dvds) of it become available. They even had time delays of more than 5min each, built into the system to allow for advertising intermissions. Some parts of the installation didn't quite work, but overall it was worth seeing. The final tally came to 3847295 pieces fallen. It ended less than an hour ago and you should have seen it."

Comments

Ouch.

[JessLeah]

I'd hate to be the one tasked with counting all the fallen dominoes...

Does anyone have the rundown on how many people and how many weeks that took? ;)

Re:Ouch.

[redshift-systems]

Um, I think it would be a little easier counting the ones that DIDN'T fall down, then applying a simple subtraction, what do you think? hmmmm?

Or, hey, maybe each domino was micro-encoded and registered itself via wireless to a nearby laptop as to whether it was: (a) standing, (b) fallen, or (c) not really a domino at all but a tim tam.

(for those of you not aware, a tim-tam is a similarly shaped choc biscuit - a favourite munchies snack.

last boy standing...

[cntlzed]

considering how the careers of the manufactured bands are going downhill, maybe it was fitting that a backstreet boy placed the final piece.
wish they had placed some of the artists and knocked them down too. that would have been more fun.

Priceless.

[dpdawson]

4000000 dominos: $400000
Travel expenses for 89 people to Germany: $60000
28480 minimum wage man hours spent setting up dominos: $146672
Renting a Backstreet Boy for 90 minutes: $5000

Realizing you're thirty, a virgin, and still live in your parents basement: Priceless

Re:Google translation

[Hrshgn]

Becausw english is an utterly ugly language or as my (french) grandmother uses to say:

Spanish is like singing, french is like talking, german is like spitting and english is like vomiting.

Greetings,

Rince

French TV commercial breaks

[codexus]

They were not even synchronized with the little pendulum breaks. That was so stupid you missed 5 minutes of dominos and then had to watch that damn pendulum for 5 other minutes. They tried to fill that time as best as they could but still it would have been much better to use the same breaks as the others.

Other than that, the show was amazing!

Only thing worth watching

[abhikhurana]

"They even had time delays of more than 5min each, built into the system to allow for advertising intermissions."

Exactly, afterall they have to put atleast something worth watching in the show.

Amazing

[Virus1984]

>110 comments and no one posted the reason why dominos are so important in a true geek's life.

Re:backstreet boy

[Fat Casper]

Wow. Out of the entire Slashdot population, one person said "hey, there's no Backstreet Boy named Jim," and then set out to discover who it was.

And then thought that someone else here needed to know. Listen, Bob- that's not a very good distinction. There's got to be a self help group out there for people like you.

Re:Google translation

[LtOcelot]

British English sounds very nice to me but when i hear Dubya talk...

Sure, but what does his speaking have to do with English?

Re:Aaargh !

[sharkey]

It just horrible enought it took place in my town here in the netherelands....
...trying to get us back at #1 of education country.....

Judging by that, the Domino record is probably easier to attain. You know you have a long, hard road to education when you can't even spell the name of your own nation.

Re:Bob Saget and Dominos

[belloc]

The bummer part was when some dude who got whacked in the crotch won the grand prize for the show.

That guy always won. Every single week. That show should've been called "Takin' It In The Nuts."