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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. 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.

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

      That's what she said.

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  7. 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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  8. Smelloscope? by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >A live feed from the smelloscope is unfortunately a few centuries away from being invented."

    In this case, that is NOT unfortunate.

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  9. Smell-o-vision by davidwr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's just not the same without Smell-o-vision.

    Thank gawd.

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  10. 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!

  11. 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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