World's Largest Flower Blooming In Streaming HD

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."

Great idea for an article

[suso]

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.

Seriously?

[ccguy]

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.

And all I can think is...

[dyingtolive]

"FEED ME SEYMOUR!!!"

Re:Oh, of course.

[gEvil (beta)]

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...

UN-fortunately?

[Bieeanda]

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

Re:Great idea for an article

[Ngarrang]

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

Re:Great idea for an article

[JohnSearle]

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...

Re:Great idea for an article

[grimarr]

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

Re:Lasted 15 minutes

[Kadagan AU]

That's what she said.

Re:Not a good day

[plover]

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.