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It has an excellent example of the world is still larger than we think it is.

"Six Million on the Move" about a massive migration in southeast South Sudan that was not found by science until 2007 by Mike Fay of "Maga-Transect" and Mega-Flyover" fame. While he found it then-the size was not revealed until later.

I first learned of this migration in a 2012 book "The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth." While a few years old now-I heartily recommend this book.

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Tue Apr 28, 2026 10:00 am

It has an excellent example of the world is still larger than we think it is.

"Six Million on the Move" about a massive migration in southeast South Sudan that was not found by science until 2007 by Mike Fay of "Maga-Transect" and Mega-Flyover" fame. While he found it then-the size was not revealed until later.

I first learned of this migration in a 2012 book "The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth." While a few years old now-I heartily recommend this book.

It's online: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/phot ... -year-2025 Scroll down.

I'm sorry but I had trouble getting past the Mahakumbh Mela picture. "400 million" people were expected to visit over the 45 day period. I can't even imagine the logistics of getting there and getting out of there let alone the support needs while so many are there at the same time. The article and what I've read never says what the peak population at any given time is but it has to be 50-75 million....in a temporary city.

Questions I have:

What was the smell like?
How many got sick?
How many died? And what did they do with the dead? Again, the smell.
Do the people just go for a few days, forego any eating? What do they drink and where do they get it?

All to take a dip is an already overly polluted river, befoe a 400 million people with sparse, if any, sanitary facilities available come for a few days.