I wish I could remember which recent thread led me to the pitch drop experiment webcam, but this is the most boring webcam I can conceive of.
It is, literally, watching dried tar drip, at a rate of about one drop per nine years.
Here is the wiki page describing the experiment, which is about the viscosity of apparent solids.
I suggest bookmarking and keeping an eye on it, as the next drop should be in the next 1-2 years.
Got anything to beat this?
Isn’t there a webcam pointed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, waiting for the second coming, or something?
Just waitin’ for it to burn out.
Watch grass [=rice] grow. This one, at least, cycles through four different views of the field.
I remember one which made you watch some cheddar cheese age.
There’s a webcam that isn’t boring?
(No, the porn ones don’t count.)
There are ones where at least you can see movement.
That’s not boring! That ancient lightbulb is awesome!
watches for 30 seconds
OK, I’m bored.
That thing is generating photons going the speed of light! It’s filled with energy! I’m already aroused by it. But unfortunately, I have to have all lights turned off for sex.
I can beat that. Here is a webcam with a shot of Cleveland.
The boring!! It bu…warms.
About 10 years ago there was one that was inside someone’s fridge. It was dark all the time unless you happened to have it on when someone opened the door.
In terms of action, this beats the average highway road crew by plenty.
omg it was my thread! what do I win?!
Since learning of that, I’ve been awaiting my next chance to swap “Watching pitch drop” for “watching paint dry” in conversation…
Somebody posted an eagle’s nest cam recently. I’m sure it is fantastic when they’re around and being cute (or regal or whatever they do). I clicked on it last night and it was just a flickering black screen with thrashing wind and crickets. I guess most webcams are hit and miss anyway though.
Yes, yes it was. You win my thanks.
Here in Iowa, we also have the Corn Cam.
Didn’t our very own Mangetout do a watching-grass-grow-cam a while back?
That website is eight shades of awesome.
I once came across a site where someone had set up a bunch of webcams trying to catch a ghost in his house. They showed things like the basement and the inside of closets; one was even under his bed. Not much action there.
But, if you really want to find a boring webcam, I’d suggest looking through some of these.
I can’t find it right now, but there’s a web cam in an attic of a house that’s supposed to be haunted. All you see is the roof framing and that’s about it. What’s hilarious, though, are the comments. Viewers are claiming to see everything from ghosts to UFO’s.
ETA: tanstaafl, sorry, didn’t see your post. Yes, that might be the site I remember.