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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