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World's Largest Flower Blooming In Streaming HD

Posted by timothy on from the fortune-is-in-the-nose-of-the-beholder dept.

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."

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  1. Great idea for an article by suso · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Great idea for an article by Ngarrang · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is this how slow of a news day we are to expect? Watching plants grow...in HD?

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    2. Re:Great idea for an article by JohnSearle · · Score: 2, Funny

      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.

      So you've turned the countdown to bloom into the countdown for slashdotting. hmm...

    3. Re:Great idea for an article by grimarr · · Score: 3, Funny

      Surely you don't expect us to watch in Standard Def! I mean, this is the 21st century, ya know.

  2. Seriously? by ccguy · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  3. And all I can think is... by dyingtolive · · Score: 2, Funny

    "FEED ME SEYMOUR!!!"

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  4. Re:Oh, of course. by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

    I think I've already seen that video...

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  5. UN-fortunately? by Bieeanda · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's a reason why they call these things corpse-flowers.

  6. Re:Lasted 15 minutes by Kadagan+AU · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's what she said.

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  7. Re:Not a good day by plover · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too bad it chose today to bloom, what with the election and all. Next year probably would have been better.

    Are you kidding? I cannot think of a more perfect day to celebrate by the blossoming of a flower known for its corrupt stench.

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