ABOUT THAT 100,000

September 26, 2005 | self

[Albertafriend]

Well I was going to put this into some other thread but things have been moving so fast that it is going to be lost and I have been encouraged to give it one of its own. So since this is the first time I've posted like this, I hope I do it all right. I was feeling really frustrated by all the conflicting accounts of how many people were at the anti-war/anti-everything related or not related to Bush protest, that I decided to try to get a closer number based on the picture that came from Reuters of the crowd on the elipse and the sidewalk. I enlarged the picture a bit (about2X) and then printed it off. I divided it into a grid and decided to count, using a very stong magnifying glass,letting each pixel stand for 1-3 people depending on its size. After doing this for a while, I started using my clear ruler that is divided into 1/8 inch squares with about 16 pixels per square. This worked a lot better. So after working on it for a couple of hours, even allowing them that the same numbers could be obscured by the trees near the crowd, and being generous because some of the grays are probably pavement, I reached a grand total of---6749! The top number possible since there are probably some not in the picture would have to be about 10,000. Of course that's 10,000 too many but I"m wondering where are the other 90-93,000 hiding out?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Good write-up on your profile page.

Welcome to the light. Glad you made it out of the darkness that is Leftism. Unfortunately, most college graduates end their education with their diploma, never examine the validity of what they were indoctrinated with, and are stuck in that limbo.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

I say 12,000 in that pic.

So do I win the big jar of jellybeans on the counter?

[Michamilton]

One note - This picture is cropped - if you look at a pulled back version you can see that people also extend along the parade route (at least as much of it as you can see here.)

[SLB]

I attended the Promise Keepers "Stand In The Gap" rally in October 1997. There were a million +, we filled the streets for blocks around the capitol.

[Verginius Rufus]

Take the number of protesters actually there and multiply by their average IQ, and you get something like 100,000.

[finnman69]

people extend down the route, but in amuch thinner concentration


I still guess around 50,000.

[netmilsmom]

Want to tutor my daughters in Math?

[Big Giant Head]

So I'm looking at this photo, I'm looking at the street, and around the area besides the elipse. I'm thinking that maybe 15,000 is closer than 10,000.

[Albertafriend]

I looked at that group and they are very sparse when you look at the picture at twice this size. That's one reason why I gave them an extra 3000 over my actual count.

[Albertafriend]

Actually I do tutor kids in math--middle school mostly.

[Palladin]

Good job!

The aerial shot I saw looked like about 6-7,000 at most.

I have been there for the January 22 anti-abortion rallies, and I know what 100,000 looks like. The entire mall is filled, and the marchers spill over into the side streets, going back a half a mile.

[Robert A Cook PE]

OK.

Oval is accounted for - pun intended. Maybe 10,000 there by your calc's and comparisons.

Devil's advocate here speaking:

There is at least that many (who were in the 1/5 of the oval that was populated) again in the rectangular area in the street : How can we (reasonably) account for the street, the "sides" of the crowd on the street not in the picture, and those hidden in the trees? (No tree-hugging monkey jokes, please.)

[Robert A Cook PE]

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55402.html

Please double check your math:

Area of an oval is (w/2)*(h/2)*3.14

In our case, (.21/2)*(.16/2)*3.15 or 0.0263 sq miles.

[Robert A Cook PE]

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55402.html

Please double check your math:

Area of an oval is (w/2)*(h/2)*3.14

In our case, (.21/2)*(.16/2)*3.15 or 0.0263 sq miles.

[BluH2o]

I saw a report on the "big anti-war protest" that attracted 100,000 marchers ...

100,000 is a number 'Rats like to throw out ... during the Clinton era they were going to hire 100,000 new cops, new teachers, etc.. It's a nice round number that means nothing ... it's pure hyperbole.

[nopardons]

bttt

[Smokin' Joe]

THat was the back 900 going around the block 10 times...

[Watery Tart]

Thanks for the computation, but I'll point out where you went wrong.

Your main problem is that you counted all of those pixels as protesters. You forgot to factor in the life-sized puppets they all brought along to represent what they were REALLY protesting.

Now, how many gay - lesbian - transexual - crossdressing - webfooted -- teencurfew - ChineseoccupationofTibet - Tonga - faithbasedinitiative - Israel -thosethatsayliberalinsteadofprogressive - stuffthatisn'tpink - protestpermitrequirements - freemumia - ihavenowheretoputabumpersticker - antianarchist - overeducatedunemployable protest puppets did you overlook and count by mistake?

I'll wait while you recalculate.
</sarcasm>

;o) Welcome to FR!

[finnman69]

I generated my own oval using autocad, different fomula.

[finnman69]

I just did a more accurate to scale AutoCAD model and did an area take off using an oval .21 miles wide and .16 miles long. I got an area of 735,336 SF. So if I used approx 10SF per person i'm down to a capacity of 73,534 if the Oval is jammed full of moonbats.