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Domino Day '02 Ends with a New World Record

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nothing-to-do-with-lotus dept.

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."

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  1. I imagine that it would take by myowntrueself · · Score: 1, Troll

    a beowulf cluster to simulate one of those!!!

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  2. Re:I'm Guessing by Dahan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Stop guessing my single! Perv.