1. Remove the unused and unusable space. Not just the reflection pool
The reflection pool isn't part of the 2029 x 800 foot area I used in that calculation.
Neither are any other monuments.
You haven't shown that there are any walking paths in that area. And we certainly can't see any in view. In fact, everywhere you look you see thick crowds of people, obviously with no concern for keeping walkings paths clear.
Again, you haven't proven there are any bathrooms in that specific area. I certainly don't see any.
Based on all the photos I've linked, there don't appear to be anything but trees in this region. Let's say there are three hundred trees (conservative), each with a diameter of 10 feet (conservative). That's a total of 300*100 sf tops. That is at most 300*100/2029/800 = 2% of the area. That is lost in the noise of the general calculation. Are you really this trusting of CBS?
There is lots of other space on the mall that is not standing room.
But I accounted for that in my 200,000+ calculation. In fact, over most of the area, I used a figure of 10 - 20 sf per person, far below the Park Service's 2.5 sf per person figure for standing room only. And along the edge of the reflecting pool, the crowd is very clearly standing room only. And you don't seem to want to touch that calculation, even though it results in a figure of 81,000, almost as much as CBS claims for the entire mall.
2. The density varies throughout the mall. It will be a lot tighter the closer you get to the stage, thinning out on the way back.
None of the images I've linked show the crowd density next to the reflecting pool, "thinning out on the way back". Again, look at the 13th image at the following link:
http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2010/08/photos-aerial-pictures-of-glenn-beck.html . The density of the crowd is shoulder to shoulder all the way down the reflecting pool. If fact, look at the photos of the crowd on the far side of the pool from the podium that I linked. It's shoulder to shoulder. You're grasping for straws, Biscuit.
3. Look closely at photos of the event. The density of one person per 2.5 is no where near accurate or universal for the mall.
But I didn't use a density of 1 person per 2.5 sf for the entire mall. Why misrepresent what I clearly stated was my methodology above? Desperation?
Look how many people are sitting in lawn chairs. Those take up a great deal more than 2.5 square feet.
Sorry, I see no lawn chairs evident in ANY picture of the folks that are between the reflecting pool and the first rows of trees on either side. There are no lawn chairs in the group of people standing next to the reflecting pond on the near side of your linked photo. You are simply pointing out people on the large expanse of lawn between the Vietname Memorial and the Washington Monument, which I only counted in my estimate by using them to fill in the gaps in people on the large extent of lawn on the left side of the left row of trees in your photo.
4. Why won't you use the methods that the experts used?
And what exact method did they use? I bet you can't tell me. You can't even provide us a link to the exact photos they CLAIM to have used in their analysis. Because for some reason they apparently don't want to make them available.
