Reply #47: As the unofficial DU sky-watcher, I am calling Shenanigans!!!

[chknltl]

hmmmmmm......................................

Lets see here...photo looks east from Wa. Monument to the capital bldg. North would be to the left of the photo. Perhaps someone better versed in sundial-ology could help me out a bit but according to my inexpert calculations, using the Washington Monument and it's CLEARLY EVIDENT SHADOW as a sundial, my uneducated guess puts the time of day somewheres mid to late afternoon. I'd guess 5-7 PM. What time did that teabuggerin take place?

Accdg to the local weather report, that area was trending from partly cloudy to chance of rain:
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=20001&hourly=1&yday=257&weekday=Tuesday

This aerial photo does not appear to be partial cloudy to chance of rain...well not to my inexpert eyes!

Oh well, all CLEARLY EVIDENT SHADOW conspiracies aside, why is it that this aerial photo of that impressively large crowd, obviously taken on a bright-bright-sunshiny-day conflict with the photos taken at ground level, obviously taken on a NOT so bright-bright-sunshiny day?



Attn. lurking freepers who believe that the aerial photo is from the teabaggerers* protest march held on the 12th of Sept.: Please provide photos of protestors with shadows. You know, shadows as pronounced as the one provided by the Washington Monument.
*(I'm sure ol GW wanted to be there too/to/two/tu!)
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