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Ben from Western writes "The Gravity and Chaos Club at Western Washington University dropped 4000+ balls 70 feet through one of our buildings. We took numerous pictures and filmed numerous videos including: from the side on the bottom watching the balls hit the ground, from the top watching the balls drop, from the bottom looking straight up as the balls dropped... Most of our club members are slashdot readers so we hope the general audience of slashdot will enjoy this as well."
Drop 4000+ Bowling balls and I'll watch.
Putting several hundred megs of video online and then posting it on slashdot has never been a good idea.
That took some balls!
"Not it!"
--"The perfect example of the man of action is the suicide." - William Carlos Williams
If they were slashdot readers why would they intentionally slashdot themselves?
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
So, 135 MB video files ready to download...
Trying to use up the remainder of that research grant I see.
I hope some of you folks in the club are also taking pictures of your webserver from different angles, as thousands of people hit it. I've gotten faster transfer rates using two cans and a string. Poor thing. :D
Auto-reply to ACs: "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."
Then you know what to expect next. Feel the burn of a good server slashdotting.
Because mail would bounce quicker than you balls.
Putting several hundred megs of video online and then posting it on slashdot has never been a good idea. Well, its a better idea than spending your tuition money on 4000 rubber balls.
--- Worst tagline ever.
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That's just about all I can see, my OS browser must really inferior.
They dropped 2000+ geeks? I'd love to watch the real-time video of that. How did they get the 2000+ to jump at the same time? Oh yeah, I read somewhere that they told them Natalie Portman was down there with a beowulf cluster of hot grits.
Boy, that site was taken off faster than a prom dress.
Well well. Someone really dropped the ball.
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
David Letterman, eat your heart out.
porp
Yours is the Gravity and Chaos club? Isn't that rather specific? I mean, do they actually have groupies for that sort of thing?
"Our geeky club only has 3916 hits since May. We're trying to increase that by atleast a whole factor. Watch us drop a bunch of balls! We're slashdot loners, so we hope that a good slashdotting will boost our self esteem."
"The Gravity and Chaos Club at Western Washington University dropped 4000+ connections every 70 milliseconds through one of our servers. We took numerous pictures and filmed numerous videos including: from the server logs watching the server hit the ground, from telnet watching the server drop, from http looking straight up as the server dropped..."
I'm thinking they can drop the "Gravity and" part of their name now. The other half, they've definitely earned. That they're almost all slashdot readers kind of implies this chaos was deliberately staged for the above "tomorrow's story".
I included here the movie for you who can't get the video due to the /. effect:
o o
| oo oo oo oo
\ o o o o
| ooo oo o o oo
/ o o o o o o
| oo oo oo oo
\ o o o o
| ooo oo o o oo ... 4000 balls
4Z5TX
yep... did this once in my dorm, dropped the basketball+superball onto a hard tile floor. The superball rocketed sideways and hit my roommate right in the middle of the forehead; he damn near choked on the hot dog he was eating. Funniest thing I've ever seen...
the coolest club on
Once WWU get's their bandwidth bill.
I just saw the movie, and it was amazing! The 4000 balls were let go, and they fell, and they bounced all around. I didn't expect that ending...it was pretty cool! Although, character development wasn't that great... and one could argue this was mostly an action flick, but whatever, I still liked it.
"There is no spoon." - The Matrix
That would only gain statistics about people who actually RTFA. Could hardly include ALL slashdotters?
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
I. Call to Order
II. Roll Call
III. Old Business
A. Selection of bar for Happy Hour
B. Vote on Method to Slashdot WWU Web Server
i. Construct undergrad-powered cluster to place top-3 in top500, post jpgs on dynamic web page
ii. Drop 4,000 superballs 70 feet and post video
iii. Teach soririty girl to install and use Linux, post jpg's and video.
IV. New Business
A. ????
V. Profit!
paintball
So, the kids at Western Washington University are finally going through puberty? Good for them.
(No disrespect intended, just couldn't pass up the opportunity to make an amusingly dirty comment.)
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Our server is slow/down for the time being due to increased load. Until Slashdot.org users forget we exist, things will be a little slow / inaccessible. On Monday, we will ensure access from on-campus computers and possibly from the internet at large.
If they were regular /. readers they would realise that come Monday there would be a dupe of this article and therefore a repeat of the /.ing on their server come Monday morning ;)
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