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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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      Bearded Dragon
    2. 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. 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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    This guy's the limit!
  3. 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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    Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
  4. Smell-o-vision by davidwr · · Score: 3, Interesting

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

    Thank gawd.

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    Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
  5. 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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    John