Watch 127,141 Dominoes fall
An evening pause: July 6, 2012: Watch as 127,141 out of 128,000 dominoes fall, setting two world records.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
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That’s completely off the chain!
Some thoughts:
The amount of work to set that up must have been staggering.
During set-up, a sneeze or a muscle spasm would have been devastating, although I’m sure they had ‘firebreaks’ in the feeder chains during that process.
The walls were really cool.
2nd Law of Thermodynamics: illustrated.
That’s a whole lot of dominoes. For perspective, that’s only slightly more dominoes than what the Federal Government spent in dollars in one second in FY2011.
“During set-up, a sneeze or a muscle spasm would have been devastating, although I’m sure they had ‘firebreaks’ in the feeder chains during that process.”
Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ90I23stj0&feature=youtube_gdata