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The human peace symbol in Copley Square
By adamg on Tue, 03/06/2007 - 6:41pm
Plans call for joining hands to create a 100-foot-diameter peace symbol in the square on March 10 between 1 and 2 p.m.
Via David Bernstein.
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100ft wide??? i am not a
100ft wide???
i am not a mathematician, but if a peace symbol is 100ft wide, that would take thousands of people standing in the cold hours and hours to organize.
between 1 and 2pm on a
between 1 and 2pm on a wednesday? do any protestors have jobs?????
what year calendar is on your wall?
It sure isn't 2007 if it says March 10 is a Wednesday.
You clearly know a lot about working
It's not a Wednesday, but nevermind that.
Plenty of people doing the real grunt work in this country are off on Wednesday afternoons, because they work evenings, or early mornings, or overnights, or they have Wednesday off because they work Saturday or Sunday. This might be a difficult concept for people who've never "had" to work, but work gets done around the clock. Ever go out to eat on Saturday? Someone takes your order and cooks your meal and directs traffic and drives the bus, don't they? This person may well be home on Wednesday afternoon.
Also, if it were a Wednesday, I imagine that a lot of folks would show up. My employer would gladly let me flex my time to go make a peace sign. And many folks are self-employed or parenting or or or or.
Please use some common sense
If you properly read the post, the event is on a Saturday.
And a 100 foot peace symbol does not require thousands of people to stand in the cold for hours and hours. Since you seem to be mathematically challenged......
A hundred foot circle would be about 315 feet in circumference. The vertical slash in the center would be 100 feet long and the two diagonal slashes in the center would be about 50 feet long each. That makes for a total of 515 linear feet to make the outline of the symbol. If you assume that each person would be about 2 feet wide, it would take a minimum of about 260 people. Clearly this is not an impossible task. More people means that either they are layered (i.e., not one person deep as previously assumed) or a larger circle could be made.
Great minds must think alike...
I just posted this at Bernstein's blog:
Thousands? Hardly.
A circle 100-ft wide has a circumference of approximately 314 feet.
Add 98 feet for the center line (assuming a one-foot depth of each person making up the circumference), and another 48.5 feet for each of the diagonals, and you're looking at just 509 linear feet of people.
Assuming a hand-to-hand length of 30" per person (the width of a standard interior door), that comes to 203.6 people needed to pull it off.
How they determine who gets to be the 0.6 is up to them. I'm just here for the math.
And "hours to organize"? Dude, it's a friggin' circle with a couple of lines in it. I don't know what this group's marijuana policy is, but I'm not seeing this as a difficult task, regardless.
.6 is easy
"How they determine who gets to be the 0.6 is up to them."
John Silber?
Hmmm.
I should be in town anyway, so maybe I'll swing by work around that time, and take a picture from the 48th floor of the Hancock Tower.
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Jen Stewart
I have a job ...
... but I'm almost never working between 1 and 2, and neither are most people. Lunch break!
Ooooh! A peace symbol!
How wonderful and truly progressive!
A human peace symbol ... could there be any bigger waste of friggin' time? Why don't those people get jobs? Dirty hippies.
I'll put it at 50/50
What are the odds they end up making a Mercedes-Benz logo instead?
they should hand out free
they should hand out free deoderant to the protestors. i wonder how many ponytails will be there.
Well, it's not like it's
Well, it's not like it's hurting anybody, and if someone is working so much that one hour on a Saturday is impossible to schedule around, then I think they have bigger problems than a peace symbol can possibly address.
Not Necessarily
Or perhaps they have non-standard hours. Not everyone works the 9-5, Monday-Friday, grind...y'know? Some people work weekends, even when they're not working more than 40 hour weeks.
I wouldn't call that a problem. I would just call that a different schedule than my own. ;)
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Jen Stewart
Well, exactly
I was thinking more along the lines of "If someone works 16 hours a day/7 days a week, with no flexibility, they have Issues, Man."
Yes, I said "Man", as in "Is that Freedom Rock, Man?"
or maybe they have a family
or maybe they have a family to take care of
Then I'd have to suggest
Then I'd have to suggest they're not spending nearly enough time with their family if they're at a job 16/7, which is what I think I strongly implied, although I realize I didn't say so specifically.
I realize caring for a household is work, but that is not even close to what I meant, and hey, bring the kids to the peace rally!