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LA to Oregon at Mach 9
Kallahar writes "Last April I hooked up a video camera to my front bumper and drove from Los Angeles to Oregon. The video is finally done; it's sped up 95x which makes the trip a mere 6 minutes long. To do the recording I hooked up a VCR inside the car and recorded in real time, then captured the entire thing to the hard drive and changed the framerate of the avi. The camera and VCR only cost about $50 total, which makes for a fairly affordable hobby/art project."
Posting a link to a 65mb file on your own site is brave.
That I can prove you were speeding using this, right?
About as long as the life-expectancy of his server
I don't own a Land Speeder you Insensitive CLOD!
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In Soviet Russia, the Video captures YOU!
Slashdotting yourself and posting a 65Mb AVI?
...which I'm sure you'll be getting by morning.
You must be new around here.
Or just really needing your ISPs love and attention
Anyway, it was nice knowing you and all.
It ain't done teached me nothin
I've always wondered how pissed the drivers that passed me were . . . Now I can know!
The 5 is still boring as hell.
Rank Presidents by th
Now that would be cool.
Sounds like how I drive...
"Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
However, after the server exploded due to Slashdotting and started a huge fire resulting in the destruction of his house, the neighborhood, and most of LA, the total cost of the trip was estimated at 8.5 billion USD.
You can mod your friends, you can mod your nose, but you can't mod your friend's nose.
There is nothing that would make me want to travel there at Mach 9. Take my word on this. For the love of God. Please.
:snip:...took a picture every minute...:snip:....1 frame per mile
I hope you stayed out of the fast lane doing this, grandpa!
kidding...kidding...
Gentlemen...BEHOLD!
-Dr. Weird
In about 30 of the frames I could have sworn I saw geeks on the side of the road with "Will Code for Food" signs.
Table-ized A.I.
As a fellow geek that does this exact drive about 4 times a year, I must say that 6 minutes is extremely appealing.
Many times during the monotony of the drive up I-5 I've wished I could teleport (even only 20 miles at a time). Mach 9 sounds just as appealing.
Why does the Slashdot Effect not affect Slashdot, of all places? Perhaps Slashdot should branch out into web hosting.... ;)
California 7A88404, That was me!
3:39 seconds in
Is it just me or at the 5:00 point does it looks like he started speeding like a bat out of hell?
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
For what it's worth, living in both LA and SF I almost never hear it refered to as "interstate 5" it is reffered to as either "highway five", or more often, just "the five".
Actually, even more often it is referred to as "what? you mean I HAVE to take the fucking five!?"
If you are one in a million, then there are six thousand people who are just like you.
I enjoyed watching your video. Thank you for making it!
/. you are not supposed to THANK anyone for doing anything useful/creative/interesting with technology you are supposed to bitch/complain/nit pick. Now get with the program.
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This is
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Ok, now if you slow it down, you can find out exactly where he lives! Turn at the white fence!
First one there, MOBLOG IT!
GO!
Did anyone else feel sick watching the video?
I don't normally get motion sickness at all any more, but that's what I felt when I watched this.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
L.A. is more like a state of mind
Actually, it's more like a state of no mind.
KFG
Just be sure to turn your camera off when you drive past Barbra Striesand's House.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
#1:"Hey, we're getting a lot of traffic from..."
#1 & #2: "SLASHDOT!!!"
#2:"quick redirect all traffic to that goatse.cx guy's website!"
Of course, our situation in Europe is a bit worse, because it's illegal to overtake on the right.
Unless you are in the UK where its the only side you are allowed to pass onOne more good reason to drive round Australia! Only 16,000 kms if I ferry the car across to Tasmania as well. Alice Springs (and Ayer's Rock, the Olga's, Katherine Gorge, etc) creates a Konigsberg Bridge problem, however, since I won't be departing from either Darwin or Adelaide, but would like to do a north-south traversal as well. Darn graph theory...
I never said that the freight trucks weren't military in purpose.
KFG
It is your duty to be as far right as possible
Ah, I knew there was something funny about your political system! Thanks for clearing that up. It all makes sense now.
evil math within Nature's Cubic Creation!
Just this winter, my friend and I were driving very early in the morning, on a nearly empty highway in farily dense fog. He was in the fast lane, and came upon a car that was going significantly slower than he. Now, he had plenty of room to pass on the right, but he decided to flash his lights at this car, but realized too late that it was a Cop!
We got pulled over, and the officer told us that it was actually illegal to flash your high-beams for any reason. You know why? It blinds the oncoming traffic!
From Wherever to Whenever.
+4 insightful when she lost the case and had to pay legal fees? One word: precedent
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Yes, but it's the CIVILISED world that drives on the left.
how about someone make a video of loading this site and speed it up 95x, so it appears that the site still loads fast?
some guys took an eighty day trip around the world and sped it up to take about 2 hours. coming soon to a theater near you.
Now that the site is slashdotted, it will take longer to download and watch the movie than to drive from LA to Oregon.