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And it is exactly this that the organizers of the 2012 event hoped to emulate, with "a piece of theater on the water" -- complete with music, fireworks and special effects -- not to mention 20, 000 people on a 7-mile-long flotilla made up of 1, 000 boats.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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Our HAL was energized as soon as we tensed our arm muscles, so lifting up the tray of four 1.5kg water bottles was a piece of cake consistently throughout the demo -- we even managed it with just our pinky (see video above)!
ENGADGET: Cyberdyne HAL robotic arm hands-on (video) Hands-on
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Water is the missing piece of the puzzle.
WHITEHOUSE: Dream Big: Water
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Body parts belonging to Ms Blamires were found in the River Aire in Shipley on 25 May and tests confirmed that a small piece of human tissue later found in the water belonged to Ms Armitage.
BBC: Stephen Griffiths
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Last summer someone in another West Virginia mine punched a hole in an embankment, apparently to keep black water from rising near a piece of equipment needed to continue digging.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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If someone else has planted the seed and provided the soil and water, they deserve a big piece of the future profit pie.
FORBES: How to Achieve Financial Independence
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Then he was out, water streaming off him, a piece of ice like a tiny pane of glass in the cuff of his coat sleeve.
NEWYORKER: Tenth of December
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Mr Uren was taking part in a relay race in which services personnel had to run up to the inflatable pool, get in over the side and grab a piece of plastic fruit floating in or under a shallow depth of water.
BBC: Ex-RAF man Robert Uren wins compensation battle
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Local police described how one piece smashed into the ground near Lake Chebarkul, throwing up a column of ice, water and steam and creating a 26-foot crater.
WSJ: Meteorite Hits Russia, Causing Panic
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Sitting on a broken piece of concrete below the edge of the Globe Roundabout, Joan sells liquid glue from a water bottle to ragged children at 10 Kenyan shillings a hit.
CNN: Kenya's street teens struggle to survive
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This find is just one more piece of the puzzle about what Mars looked like hundreds of millions of years ago, when there was water on the surface.
FORBES: NASA Finds Remains Of Ancient Martian Lake