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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. Lasted 15 minutes by suso · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was impressive that it lasted longer than 10, but then it just started getting worse and worse until bam, disconnect.

  2. This is almost as exciting as ... by xmas2003 · · Score: 2, Informative

    watching grass grow

    P.S. Some dude with a balding spot is in front of the corpse flower right now.

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  3. Oh man... by Khyber · · Score: 2, Informative

    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!

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    1. Re:Oh man... by Lijemo · · Score: 2, Informative

      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.

      They killed a plant so rare that there are fewer than 200 (two-hundred) known specimens in the world, rather than vacate the premises for the few hours that the bloom lasts?!?!?!?

      If they can't deal with closing the school one day to avoid the few hours every six years that the bloom is open, then why the heck did the school have one in the first place? Give it to another school, museum, or research center!