I was sent this video. It is a time lapse of the National Mall on Inauguration Day. I am not sure what time the video ends but it seems to end very close to when the program starts because the stage looks full. Im not sure because I wasn't there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdantUf5tXg

(01-25-2017 04:18 PM)smudge12 Wrote:  If you closely and analyze the gigapixel picture and the one from Washington monument, it seems to confirm they both show the same scene. It's a little tougher to tell from the gigapixel perspective, but if you compare each section, you can see the white spaces where they're shown in the aerial pic.

If you actually analyze it closely, you will see you are completely wrong. The original picture shows only one of the 6 sections to be mostly full, the gigapixel shows every section to be mostly full with the first three tightly packed. Yuuge discrepancy.

Seems really odd just for the fact that you should record history that someone didn't take a picture of the crowd at the moment Trump started speaking.

(01-25-2017 04:28 PM)2-Hood-Rich Wrote:  

(01-25-2017 04:18 PM)smudge12 Wrote:  If you closely and analyze the gigapixel picture and the one from Washington monument, it seems to confirm they both show the same scene. It's a little tougher to tell from the gigapixel perspective, but if you compare each section, you can see the white spaces where they're shown in the aerial pic.

you're blind as a bat.

Blind, or intentionally spreading fake news.

(01-25-2017 04:34 PM)pcm0103 Wrote:  I was sent this video. It is a time lapse of the National Mall on Inauguration Day. I am not sure what time the video ends but it seems to end very close to when the program starts because the stage looks full. Im not sure because I wasn't there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdantUf5tXg

Yea, funny, I got sent the same video.

Who else?!?

My response? My guess is it was started around 6:30, run til around 10, then clipped/turned off and spliced to the egress around 2:30 or so. Don't buy that for a second, having watched the entire thing myself and based on the stills I've seen and the one in the OP especially.

No WAY there was that much empty space out there.

And FWIW, I've been to 3 Inaugurals, the security, searches, perimeters etc., were MUCH tighter than even 4 yrs ago.

Comments disabled (of course), and you can see change in the color of the sky from where they cut and edit the time lapse. Holy crap, so Orwellian.

(01-25-2017 05:12 PM)smudge12 Wrote:  I've come to the conclusion many of you see what you want to see, hear what you want to hear, believe what you want to believe. I thought this Spin Room might be a good place for intelligent debate between conservatives and liberals, but after spending a few weeks here, I think I'm out. There are a lot of better message boards for politics than this one.

Good luck all.

Why do people feel like they have to announce they are leaving a messageboard? The easiest thing to do is just not post any more. Or is it that a small part of you is hoping to have others to say "don't go" ?

(01-25-2017 05:36 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(01-25-2017 05:12 PM)smudge12 Wrote:  I've come to the conclusion many of you see what you want to see, hear what you want to hear, believe what you want to believe. I thought this Spin Room might be a good place for intelligent debate between conservatives and liberals, but after spending a few weeks here, I think I'm out. There are a lot of better message boards for politics than this one.

Good luck all.

Why do people feel like they have to announce they are leaving a messageboard? The easiest thing to do is just not post any more. Or is it that a small part of you is hoping to have others to say "don't go" ?

I'm more curious as to what he is so upset about.

(01-25-2017 05:36 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  Why do people feel like they have to announce they are leaving a messageboard?

Whipping oneself into an embarrassing emotional lather is now considered righteous instead of ridiculous.