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Comments on: Poll: The next video-streaming record breaker?

Help us predict which event will make simultaneous streaming-video viewership surpass the record set the day President Barack Obama took office.

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by rachel_clarke January 21, 2009 8:35 AM PST
The Olympics?
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by maxsell January 21, 2009 8:50 AM PST
a terrorist attack
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by mdivrx January 21, 2009 9:17 AM PST
Landing on the Moon once again.
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by Sporlo January 21, 2009 7:46 PM PST
that would be freaking awesome to watch streaming live.
by akston January 21, 2009 9:18 AM PST
And we thought the internet tubes were on the verge of breaking. Guess it's okay to roll back the bandwidth crackdown now that the 'youtube will wreck the internet' debacle's been proven a hoax.
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by gjohnson January 21, 2009 9:41 AM PST
I tried to listen to the inauguration on line but the feed kept dropping out and I would have to restart. Would this count as 10 different feeds? Not to mention I missed half of it because every time it would reload, I had to watch another commercial.
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by fksvermeer--2008 January 21, 2009 10:24 AM PST
The second coming of Jesus Christ!
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by karpenterskids January 21, 2009 1:15 PM PST
Haha...good one. That'll be seen in the sky, though...I doubt there'll be time to log online. ;)
by sanjayb January 21, 2009 10:34 AM PST
The second coming of Jesus? Oh, way a minute. That was the inauguration. :-P
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by Warhaven January 21, 2009 1:42 PM PST
The first live footage of an Earth-similar exoplanet with liquid water oceans.
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by ktaylor100 January 21, 2009 2:01 PM PST
Hmm the moon landing thing or a Mars landing.
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by Sporlo January 21, 2009 7:48 PM PST
haha the Lost finale is actually in third :D

I predicted the World Cup over a disaster because I think you'd naturally get more views with something planned far in advance. Sure, the disaster might catch viewers slightly later, but by then more people will already know more about it and be less likely to watch.
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