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Let this blow your mind...

posted January 20, 2009 by Chris Randall

Click that fucker to zoom out. Waaaaaaay out. This photo was snapped from 432 miles above Washington DC at 11:19 am on 1/20/09. I think you can figure the rest out on your own. Normally, satellite photos do a good job of making me feel small. This one makes me feel big, for some reason.

Anyway, happy new year, everyone.

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Convolution

posted January 21, 2009

Damn. You don't realize how many people their are until you see that photo. Makes you wonder why they seem to be in disparate clumps in seemingly random areas. I'm sure theres a reason, but I don't know what it is.

You can also Ctrl+mousewheel to have the browser zoom in and out of the image. It gives you an idea of just how spread out the different clumps are and just how many people must be there. I haven't seen any solid numbers on totals. But it's pretty clear it was a ridiculously huge turnout.

Chris Randall

posted January 21, 2009

Everything I've read and seen on TV says just south of 2 million. If that's true, it is by a long shot the largest gathering on the mall ever, and one of the largest collections of humans in such a small area anywhere ever, period.

Something to ponder.

-CR