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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."
Interesting if you want to watch their content you need to pay via DigiPay... 4million domino's aren't really interesting enough to pay to watch.
How did they do that without cheating? By cheating I mean using something other than dominos and/or having a person stop and restart the falling process midway through.
(I know, RTFA, but I don't speak German.)
I remember one time on America's Funniest Home Videos (back in the day, of course, when it was hosted by the King of Cool, Bob Saget) they had this one where two guys spent all night at a video store stacking up empty boxes. They covered the floor, counters, and racks with those semi-transluscent VHS boxes and knocked 'em all down with one super huge domino effect.
The bummer part was when some dude who got whacked in the crotch won the grand prize for the show.
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Looks like there are more questions than answers in the post (as usual):
What: (we got this)
Who: Domino expert Robin Weijers and his crew (hundreds of sturdents and volunteers)
When: yesterday
Where: Leewarden, the Netherlands (not Germany)
Why: To beat the Japanese, of course!
The Dutch and the Japanese routiely dance around this world record. I've been around for 3 of these so far and within 6 months a Japanese expert (also with students and volunteers).
The only difference: They have domino robots. We have windmills. Well, usually - I actually went out last night so I missed it...
Last year they had Kylie do it. I think she was bemused at the time... the look on her face said that she'd never seen anything like this in her life, but she wasn't yet sure if this was a good or a bad thing.
If you enjoyed watching all those millions of dominoes toppling, you ought to check out Fiat Lux If you enjoy anything to do with CG animation, you should also check this out. It's a rather impressive CG short of thousands of dominoes about the size of the monolith from 2001 (The small one that appeared before the apes - not the giant one in space) toppling through the interior of St. Peter's Basilica. As an added bonus, if you like shiny objects, the domino-monoliths are highly reflective. It's quite a sight to behold. My crude explanation doesn't do Fiat Lux justice. Go check it out for yourself!
Oh well at least the Netherlands is doing something other than smoking hash
:)
You mean the netherlands is doing something else than smoking hash, organizing the implementation of a new coin, putting research in optical media, keeping a big part of trade going around the world, paying a big part in useless joint strike fighters, (Am I the only one who sees the pun in this btw?), keeping their people happy, exporting crappy DJ's that foreign people seem to adore, etc, etc
These days we're even in political chaos, now that is unusual for this normally poltically quiet country. It might get a good turn on it tho
Oh and FYI the average of dutch people smoking weed/hash is lower than that of the US or the UK...
Hope this information has saved you from ignorance...
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