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Surf champions and enthusiastic amateurs were among those balancing on the custom-made 42-foot board at Huntington Beach, Calif., on Saturday, reports the BBC. A crowd of 5,000 spectators watched the group as they rode the board for 12 seconds. The record was previously set in Queensland, Australia, about a decade ago, when 47 surfers managed a ride of 10 seconds. Guinness World Record adjudicator Michael Empric flew in from New York to judge the event and said a [separate](http://www.ocregister.com/articles/surfing-667730-record-huntington.html) world record for the largest surfboard would take a few days to determine. ## Transcript >> Feelings of awe have always been associated with feelings of spirituality or religion. It's hard to be an atheist when you're looking at the Grand Canyon. One of the reasons it's so powerfully spiritual is because, first of all, it makes us feel small. And second of all, it makes us question how the thing that's making us feel that way came to be in the first place. A new study in psychological science tried to apply the scientific method to that very unscientific phenomenon and found a creative way to do it. All of the subjects in the study were shown one of four videos. The first was a 1959 interview with Mike Wallace. >> There are very few us then in this world, by your standards, who are worthy of love. >> Unfortunately, yes. >> The second was a nature show with images and footage of animals behaving in funny or silly ways. The third were all inspiring scenes of nature from a BBC documentary and the last were surreal images of, say, waterfalls flowing down city streets. Consistently subjects who would see the inspiring or surreal videos had a greater sense of a universe that unfolds according to a master plan and had a lower tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. As a control, subjects were also asked to look at a series of randomly generated ones and twos and to decide on a scale of 1 to 10 how likely it was that the numbers have been organized either randomly by a computer or intentionally by a human being. Once again, people who had experienced awe were likelier to conclude that a human being had organized the numbers, the sense again being that there must be some designer behind the plan. The question naturally arises of course that if seen things that cause you to experience awe make you seek answers, couldn't looking at space simply make you wanna be an astronomer who are looking at the Grand Canyon make you want to be a geologist? And the answer is maybe, but the scientists aren't so sure. 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