# Watching Grass Grow - actually, it was quite interesting. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 11, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-grass-grow-actually-it-was-quite-interesting/452632 "2008-06-11T22:55:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-grass-grow-actually-it-was-quite-interesting/452632/21 "2008-06-12T15:23:51Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] If I can collect enough cats together in one place to try it… wait… that would be the objective, wouldn’t it? [/QUOTE] Pfft. Herding cats is easy. I do it twice a day, every day. The grass thing, however…WAY cool! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-grass-grow-actually-it-was-quite-interesting/452632/22 "2008-06-12T15:51:22Z")
Cool. Now, if you can figure out how to make a time lapse movie of paint drying just as interesting, I shall be yours to command forever. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-grass-grow-actually-it-was-quite-interesting/452632/23 "2008-06-12T17:26:46Z")
If you type in “Time Lapse” at YouTube you’ll get other things like this (only without the cute ending). Another thing to do is to look up “High Speed” on YouTube, for the flipside. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-grass-grow-actually-it-was-quite-interesting/452632/24 "2008-06-12T17:28:27Z")
Great video. One week and a hand full of bird seed huh, cool. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-grass-grow-actually-it-was-quite-interesting/452632/25 "2008-06-12T18:47:31Z")
Great ending. BTW, here’s a commercial of cowboys herding cats: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-grass-grow-actually-it-was-quite-interesting/452632/26 "2008-06-12T19:21:54Z")
[QUOTE=blondebear] Very cool. That music isn’t by Phillip Glass, by any chance? 😉 There was a great NOVA episode on time-lapse/high speed photography called _“Moving Still”_. The best part was the decomposing\* mouse. [/QUOTE] When you speed up a clip of a dead mouse, play Phillip Glass if you want to be decomposing 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-grass-grow-actually-it-was-quite-interesting/452632/27 "2008-06-12T19:33:16Z")
That’s great, wonderful use of technology, science, and humor. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-grass-grow-actually-it-was-quite-interesting/452632/28 "2008-06-12T19:34:42Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Cool. Now, if you can figure out how to make a time lapse movie of paint drying just as interesting, I shall be yours to command forever. [/QUOTE] I am actually planning exactly this. (well, the bit about the paint, anyway) ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-grass-grow-actually-it-was-quite-interesting/452632/29 "2008-06-12T19:41:19Z")
Heh, heh - great again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-grass-grow-actually-it-was-quite-interesting/452632.md?page=1)