4/6/2005: "A tide of humanity"
"The tide of humanity was clearly visible on pictures taken from space" 
Click for a Keyhole overlay showing the three queues through the Vatican, taken from space. It isn't a great quality photo but the immensity is clear.
An estimated 1 to 1.2 million people were in line when they closed it off today to prepare for Friday's funeral. The last ones have a 24-hour wait before they reach "Poppa".
In further mind-boggling news, when questioned about the hundreds of world leaders & dignitaries and millions (more) people coming to town for the funeral, the Vatican Security Commissioner said terrorists wouldn't dare do anything, and added "There is a special atmosphere here."
I'm sure that's true, and I'm sure it's a very real and very palpable atmosphere.
But I have to go look up the definition of terrorist now..
