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World's Largest Flower Blooming In Streaming HD
npongratz writes "Standing at six feet tall and growing an inch per hour, a corpse flower is set to bloom at the Milwaukee Public Museum. You can keep tabs on this once-in-six-years event in streaming 1080p HD (using VLC), or a lower-bandwidth image feed. A live feed from the smelloscope is unfortunately a few centuries away from being invented."
I've been watching this thing for about 10 minutes thinking. In about 9 minutes, everyone on slashdot will see a link for "High Def live video feed" and click on it. Suddenly, the server running this stream will start trying to transfer 50GB/sec (100,000+ users) and this thing WILL JUST DIE. Here we go.
Disclaimer: I know they couldn't transfer 50GB/sec or even 1GB per second.
I can't believe this is news. Every TV brand uses flowers to demo the greatness of their products.
In fact, Whenever a friend comes home I share the pain by bragging about my TV by playing a few dozens of these so called 'flower demos'. Not a movie, not a sport event, not a TV show. Flowers. This always make them want to go to closest TV shop.
I tuned into the new flower-o-vision just in time to see an older guy with his finger about three inches up his nose in glorious full-screen 1080p HD. Just great. Thanks for ruining my lunch, Slashdot!
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It looks like it's down. Anyone have a mirror of the video?
I lived in Milwaukee for a few years, and if I recall, the room this is housed is right next to the cafe. Lovely!
Also, it appears the site MPM site has been Slashdotted.
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Sure, let's all go to their site to watch a flower whose scientific name translates to 'giant misshapen penis' 'bloom' in full 1080p HD...
There's a reason why they call these things corpse-flowers.
It was impressive that it lasted longer than 10, but then it just started getting worse and worse until bam, disconnect.
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lol
Not only are we watching a flower bloom in HD, the plant is named after a Giant Misshapen Phallus which when blooming gives off a smell resembling rotting meat that can be smelled for miles..
So we'll see guys in white suits incinerating it with flamethrowers? GG, Slashdot!
Frankly, I'm glad there is no smell-o-scope or smell-o-vision. There is a reason its called a corpse flower. It smells like rotting meat, or if you're lucky, cookies.
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P.S. Some dude with a balding spot is in front of the corpse flower right now.
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>A live feed from the smelloscope is unfortunately a few centuries away from being invented."
In this case, that is NOT unfortunate.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Thank God nobody ever invented Smellovision.
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I can top that. It was such a searing sight I have to.
Wandered into Best Buy's high-end HDTV room. I look up from my shuffling feet, and see - duplicated across four dozen big-screen high-def displays covering two large walls - a very bloody live human birth.
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
Past, present, future... it's all a matter of perspective. If you ask Phillip J. Fry, Smellovision has been invented.
"Ever yet" might be more appropriate and exact. Sorry to be pedantic. :)
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It's just not the same without Smell-o-vision.
Thank gawd.
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Why all the controversy?
I don't understand what the big stink over this flower is. Geez.
Get over it.
... I can't watch for too long or I risk exceeding my bandwidth limit. Chilling effect? I think so. Someday an alternative will present itself (FiOS hopefully) and I'll jump as fast as I can.
of my cap will I use up if I watch this?
I think Corpse Flower would be an awesome name for an all-female death metal band.
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if Obama gets elected on the same day the "giant misshapen penis" blooms.
I'm just say'n, wouldn't it be funny?
Too bad it chose today to bloom, what with the election and all. Next year probably would have been better.
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Lisa: A rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet.
Bart: Not if you called them "stench blossoms."
Homer: Or, crapweeds.
Marge: I'd sure hate to get a dozen crapweeds for Valentine's Day. I'd rather have candy.
Homer: Not if they were called "scumdrops."
When it blooms, there will be NOBODY in that building to CARE.
We had one of those at the Kirby High Greenhouse. Right as it bloomed we had to get pictures of it and kill it off, because the stench was so bad it hit the cafeteria on the other side of school, and students were puking.
I feel sorry for the guys that have to deal with this, even once every six years!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
This is one of those rarer shots, and I'd like to know if anybody has/can/will record this so we can all enjoy it a few years down the line. I know right now not only do I not have the power to run a 1080p video stream, I don't have the connection bw, or a monitor capable of streaming it. But it would be nice to come back on this one day.
Unless it's almost a given it's going to be on the pirate bay?
Seriously. Do yourselves a favor and use mplayer.
Now we can all watch people stare, point, and generally make faces at the weird flower. ^ ^'