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.
bttt
THat was the back 900 going around the block 10 times...
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.
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;o) Welcome to FR!
The National Park Service used to make scientific estimates of crowd size on the mall.
It became very common for groups to claim the NPS had PURPOSEFULLY undercounted their numbers. This reached its peak with the so-called "Million Man March"...which drew about 600,000.
The NPS got tired of being doormats for accusations of racism, sexism and all other ism's and they no longer count crowd size.