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

Re:5 minute delay?

[ruudn]

Pendulums, at least the last delay (I only watched the last part, it's kind of boring...)

The pendulum just circles around, in smaller circles until it hits a domino, et voila!

Re:Payoffs

[cheezehead]

...and HOW much counting to get to 4 million?

A friend of mine was involved in this back in the '80s. They don't really count the dominos. They weigh them. Given a certain tolerance in the weight, you can calculate the uncertainty in the number of stones. The exact number is not all that important, it's more that you can establish that you beat the previous record.

Same stuff, some nice new effects....

[NightWhistler]

Like a few people already said: this is beginning to be a recurring event on Dutch television.
It's organized and televised by SBS6, a Dutch network, so I don't know what the links to RTL (a German network) is all about... The link to the program is here

They did come up with a few nice new things though... I aspecially liked when they had domino's falling under water, and at one point they even had a bubble of air rising to the surface, knocking down domino's as it went... ;-)

I'm curious to see what they come up with next year...