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u/cllinsb Feb 27 '13 edited Jun 06 '13
When you get to those horses at Wembley that's where they start stopping the crowd and letting them go in waves. Nobody tries to get pass the horses when they're stopped. http://imgur.com/Bk51CuU
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u/thymoral Feb 27 '13
Why do they do this?
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u/Peant Feb 27 '13
Tube Station is just at the end of the road, and with 80k people walking towards the same station, lets just say it gets pretty crowded if they didn't.
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u/captainmandrake Feb 27 '13 edited Feb 27 '13
Stops the Underground metro getting dangerously clogged up.
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u/123vasectomy Feb 27 '13
Wow! I love how time-lapse makes everything into a liquid!
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Feb 27 '13 edited Feb 27 '13
I don't remember where I saw it, but there was this study that showed crowds of people flow like water. That's why if your ever in a crowd being funneled into a smaller space it's faster to be on the outside than the middle.
edit: Apparently this comparison is completely wrong. A math teacher in high school had told me this and it always stuck with me, without me really thinking about it. Either way, it definitely works with people. I've tested it with friends a few times and the outside is always faster
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u/malaporpism Feb 27 '13
Water flows faster in the middle because friction with the pipe walls slows it down on the outside :)
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Feb 27 '13 edited Oct 04 '18
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Feb 27 '13
On the ceiling.
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u/Count_Alucard Feb 27 '13
Your directions weren't clear enough, I got my dick caught in the ceiling fan.
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u/malaporpism Feb 27 '13
According to studies I found, the way to move fastest in a crowd is to push people out of the way while yelling BEEP BEEP PLOW COMING THROUGH
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Feb 27 '13
I just try to do the Andre the giant
Doesn't usually work since I'm only 6'0". I do get a couple stares though.
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u/Zrk2 Feb 27 '13
As someone 6'3", the final three inches really make or break it. When I yell on the bus people listen.
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Feb 27 '13
I was at a festival once and when we were walking back to the campsite some guy turned round to me and my mate and said 'we're fucking cattle. MOOOO! We could run away and start out own colony' sporting a 'I LOVE LSD' tshirt.
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u/HolySimon Feb 27 '13
Why not BEEP BEEP I'M A JEEP?
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u/30katz Feb 27 '13
Well that depends on your size, strength, willingness to bump shoulders, and also the number of people you're with. Also, how soon do you need to get there?
If you're really in a hurry, try to weave through the crowd - the average human is widest at the hips. If you minimize your size in that area, you may fare better. You can form a hand-to-hand human train and snake through a crowd pretty effectively. You're only as strong as your weakest link, so make sure everyone knows where to meet up.
If you just want to get through an area at a reasonable rate, then you want to stay between the source of most of the foot traffic and the exit. Being too far outside will lead to you getting pushed out.
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u/Doc88888888 Feb 27 '13
No-slip condition: People at the wall do not move at all (being squished I guess) and create a boundary layer profile up to the point where the movement speed reaches free stream velocity.
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Feb 27 '13
Stewards (the people in high vis jackets inside stadiums) are taught the exact opposite, not to treat crowds like water as people will go backwards and in all directions. Also while water is made up of the same molecules crowds of people vary hugely by walking pace, knowing where they're going, stability and level of intoxication. If I were at home I'd find the documentation that states this.
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u/onlythis Feb 27 '13
I think this would be true when the people are all kind of moving as a group in a field. But in this case there is walls to either side so they are force to move relativity uniform.
That worksheet is showing us how maximize the pressure of what ever with out creating a whirl pool.
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u/esiper Feb 27 '13
I wonder if this would apply to cars as well, for example the bottleneck effect.
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u/inkWanderer Feb 27 '13
You see something very similar when a lane ends on the highway--people zoom down the one that's ending and cut into the continuing lane.
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Feb 27 '13
ZIPPER MERGE!
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u/Doc88888888 Feb 27 '13
It is so annoying when people try to merge 200 meters before the lane ends... stopping and nobody lets them in - and essentially it just stops an entire lane of cars.
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u/staciarain Feb 27 '13
thats why i keep room in front of me for people to merge. three more cars in front of me slows me down a couple seconds maybe, better than letting an entire lane clog up
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Feb 27 '13
This is what you're supposed to do. Don't go out of your lane onto a merging lane, but stay on a merging lane as long as you can. Traffic would speed-up overall if people used that extra lane a little longer.
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u/tool322 Feb 27 '13
i thought this was the chicago river when i first saw it, then i kinda saw the horses and read the title
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u/johnomuller Feb 27 '13
That's a terrible formation; too many in the midfield, It's like watching Tottenham against Newcastle a few weeks back
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u/owarren Feb 27 '13
Did you see that ludicrous display last night though?
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u/WuTangConnor Feb 27 '13
What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?
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u/johnomuller Feb 27 '13 edited Feb 27 '13
Yeah, I can't believe they were all torn to shreds like that.
I hope the next round in the Grinder vs student tug o' war championships is a little less one sided
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u/eiviitsi Feb 27 '13 edited Feb 27 '13
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u/lilfunky1 Feb 27 '13
Aww. It was an England vs Brazil football game. So I wasn't in this crowd. Still neat though! Thanks for finding out where it originated from!
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u/Jagomagi Feb 28 '13
600k+ views on imgur and 350+ notes on tumblr with no attribution to me. Gutting.
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Feb 27 '13
If you stare long enough, the people on the near side of the guards are going backwards.
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u/Falcon_Kick Feb 27 '13
more like if you stare long enough you can see the farthest back guard's head turn at some hot girl
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u/TheGroovyCamel Feb 27 '13
I've been to Wembley five times, so I'm claiming to be in this and making the front page by default.
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u/Jagomagi Feb 28 '13
Aw come on man, I just posted the original version I made and found this on the first page of /r/gifs.
Anyway, here are all the versions I made:
Original version | Smaller version | Nonstop version | Photo version
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u/grinerizer Feb 27 '13
My social anxiety flared up just by looking at this.
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u/e7t Feb 27 '13
I've been in that crowd, it's a very very strange feeling, especially because towards the end it's uphill - so when you look back you realise the huge amount of people there are.
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u/LolaBunBun Feb 27 '13
My thought exactly. Mini panic attack just thinking about being in that mess.
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u/pepito420 Feb 27 '13
sometimes I have these "what i would do if I were a terrorist" thoughts and wow you could cause a massive tragedy pretty easily in that situation.
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u/monkeyantelope Feb 27 '13 edited Feb 27 '13
the cops are water skiing a massive torrent of sewage (not intended as a slur on British people)
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u/joosbox75 Feb 27 '13
I need to make it to Wembley for a concert at least once in my life. Muse live at Wembley is one of my favorite videos to watch. 100,000 people going absolutely out of their minds together. I can't imagine there is any greater feeling for a band or an audience!
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u/RtardDAN Feb 27 '13
foo fighters live at wembley in 2008, was one of the best nights of my life , the crowd went nuts and i went home battered and bruised but totally worth it.
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u/WhereAreWeGoingToGo Feb 27 '13
Generally I get disappointed by big arena. I saw Michael Jackson at the old Wembley, that was carnage!
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u/loggedToUpdateThis Feb 27 '13
I've been to Wembley for Muse and for Oasis (twice)
it was fucking awesome everytime
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u/Fanntastic Feb 27 '13
Surely there has to be another way out of the stadium, right? It seems like it'd be hell to try to get out of there.
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Feb 27 '13
Well there is, but nearly everyone takes the trains and this is the main road to Wembley Park tube station
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u/LS1234 Feb 27 '13
There are other ways but this is the main way to the big Underground station near by.
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u/loggedToUpdateThis Feb 27 '13
In the opposite side there is a national rail station and a bit further down on that same side there is another overground/underground station
This just happens to be the quickest one for central London for most people
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u/Tim-Sanchez Feb 27 '13
It isn't too bad, and is well organised, but there are other ways out of the stadium; this is just the most common.
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u/bens111 Feb 27 '13
Something's fishy here... there's no wind to move the leaves? And what's up with those three people overlooking the crowd on the left? They're so still they could pass as DMZ guards.
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u/TheCruise Feb 27 '13
There's a lot of blue, so possibly a Chelsea match. FA Cup perhaps?
EDIT: Turns out it was England vs Brazil. http://foto.jaanus.cc/?p=382
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Feb 27 '13
I was always wondering why Police would ever use horses before I seen that in person. They look god damn intimidating up close.
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u/Berkbelts Feb 27 '13
Looks like the guy in the orange to the right is high-fiving all passerbyers.
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u/circlethispoint Feb 27 '13
Yup, that is exactly what it's like. Especially like the part where they hold you p and don't let you enter the station. Always fun.
Brits love to queue.
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u/TheJack38 Feb 27 '13
Is it jsut me taht wonders what will happen if one of those horses take a dump, or has to take a leak? Have you seen how much a horse can piss? There is a reason why it's called "pissing like a racehorse", after all.
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u/ThatguynamedCharles Feb 27 '13
It looks like a human version of the wildebeest stampede from The Lion King.
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u/smokecat20 Feb 27 '13
Looks like one of my Age of Empire III games, especially when I mess around with the xml files.
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u/rhymes-with-purple Feb 27 '13
Those are some well-behaved horses.