Yeah, unless they make them wait in a line for their turn to "ride" while the other people accelerate away.

Anyway, why do people stand still on walkways? Or escalators for that matter?

Probably for the same reason they circle around parking lots for a minute, looking for that one spot just a few feet closer to the store's door.

Heheee, they drive me nuts, too.

Don't get me started on a rant about people and their shopping carts. :p

You could have multiple parallel walkways moving at increasing speed, but that would make handrails an issue.

Amazing pic. Paris seems to have two churches that look just about identical... you can see one of them at the far left of the picture, and the other at the far right.

;-)

I love that Paris by Night panaroma website.

It is. I once stayed in the hospital to the left. There is a hotel on the top floor. If I stood on the bed and stuck my head out of the skylight I got a similar view of about quarter of that photo.

>>I have heard they have a very fast moving walkway at one of the railway stations.

Yeah. I got lost in there. I think they have everyone fooled. You walk for miles and never see a train but eventually get where you want to go.

i'm getting the AFU error code

We had a weekend in Paris about three years ago. Stayed in a little hotel not too far from Notre Dame. Got to see the Arc de Triumph (sp?) Inside Notre Dame, the Louvre, ate crepes up the Eiffel Tower, got happy on absynth, ate snails and saw the Moulin Rouge show. All in the crappiest (freezing hortizontal rain) weather possible, and spent a bloody fortune.

It was huge fun and I'd do it again in an instant....

Welcome to the Cellar, Yupa.:D

When you were on the metro, did you notice all the rabbits running around? I think Paris must have some sort of infestation or something. I bet the metro takes care of a bit of the surplus rabbit population ;)

I think I walked down one of those streets there! I went to Paris once, because while we were visiting Bosnia (no, I'm serious) in 1999, Tony Blair and NATO decided to bomb what used to be Yugoslavia (and is now Serbia). So it was a little tricky getting a flight out, because all the planes were grounded in Bosnia and Croatia. Eventually we were re-routed to Paris, where Air Canada paid for an overnight stay in a three-star hotel (think four-star in North American terms). It was quite an adventure.

It doesn't seem right to me, but the photo is actually a full 360 degrees. The far left and right sides overlap by about one full building.

Pretty neat. I've never used the 360-degree function on my photostitching software, but then again, I've never thought to shoot a 360 panorama in the first place.

This guy does awesome panoramic and 360 work. <jealous> :worried:



Oh right, and YES, I have been to Paris. Was there from May to September 2001.

Ahhhh this is what dual 1280x1024 monitors are good for!!



chrisinhouston;
I think that guy's pants are down around his ankles!!

Ah hell it is Paris..

I feel tempted to photoshop some more people into some of those many windows :D

Are those lights or burning cars?