VIDEO: Giant Dominoes Recrate Fall of Berlin Wall

[JMcEntegart]

This week Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

VIDEO: Giant Dominoes Recrate Fall of Berlin Wall : Read more

 

[amnotanoobie]

In Russia, dominoes....

 

[ssalim]

Recrate...

 

[ssalim]

"and leaders from all over the world gathered gathered in Berlin to celebrate the historic moment."

super gathered

 

[ssalim]

What's with the last domino? made of concrete? planted into the street?

 

[Kelavarus]

Tom's Hardware needs to actually filter what comes onto it via Tom's Guide. Because... This has nothing to do with Tech except that it's a video on youtube.

 

[HolyCrusader]

20 years? Damn, I'm feeling old. I remember watching the news of the Wall's demise on CNN in High School.

 

[JMcEntegart]

[citation][nom]HolyCrusader[/nom]20 years? Damn, I'm feeling old. I remember watching the news of the Wall's demise on CNN in High School.[/citation]

Not old, vintage.

 

[Hellbound]

[citation][nom]ssalim[/nom]"and leaders from all over the world gathered gathered in Berlin to celebrate the historic moment."super gathered[/citation]

Except for Obama.......lol

 

[Ciuy]

Obama was planing the atack on Iran that day .

 

[doomtomb]

Who's idea was it to use giant dominoes? This is pretty random.

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]doomtomb[/nom]Who's idea was it to use giant dominoes? This is pretty random.[/citation]
Well, in addition to being cute, it can represent the series of events, big and small, that cascaded to cause the fall of the wall and the Soviet Union. Having Lech Walesa push over the first one is a wonderful bit of drama.
For those of us old enough to remember the "domino theory," it makes perfect sense.

 

[cloudberry]

The music sounds like something out of Unreal Tournament.

 

[Greg_77]

Lech Wałęsa (the former Polish president) seemingly trips after setting off the dominoes. Did anyone else see this?

 

[anamaniac]

I would have loved to be in Berlin for the event.

 

[papasmurf]

[citation][nom]Ciuy[/nom]Obama was planing the atack on Iran that day .[/citation]


Don't you mean "Obama was giving Ahmadinejad a BJ that day"

 

[city_zen]

Some of you may be too young to remember but choosing Lech Walesa to push the first domino makes perfect sense (apart from being a well-deserved honor) because he was the guy who had the guts to stand against the communist government of Poland back in 1980 when the cold war was in full force. Those strikes in Poland, of which Walesa was the leader, were arguably the beginning of the end of communism in Eastern Europe.

 

[jerther]

Humans and dominoes...

 

[cyberkuberiah]

[citation][nom]Kelavarus[/nom]Tom's Hardware needs to actually filter what comes onto it via Tom's Guide. Because... This has nothing to do with Tech except that it's a video on youtube.[/citation]

i agree with you . tom's guide articles should not be mixed up with tom's hardware articles as is now . forget benchmarks , this has nothing to do with tech at all .

 

[backin5]

[citation][nom]cyberkuberiah[/nom]i agree with you . tom's guide articles should not be mixed up with tom's hardware articles as is now . forget benchmarks , this has nothing to do with tech at all .[/citation]

unless one considers falling dominoes a technology.

Maybe they should have had the last domino press a button that deletes this news item from Tom's. But then it would become tech news, thus creating a paradox...

...ok, I'm gonna shut up now.