The queue!!!

[dickthegrouch]

4 miles long!

[BigmanPigman]

1. Not surprised.

From the news clip I saw they were walking past at a snail's pace. They'd better step on it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Their original idea was that 400,000 people would visit the coffin in four and a half days

Which is one per second. The footage I've seen was far slower than that - maybe one every five seconds.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I just heard on MSNBC that

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the official wait-time is now 24 hours so they closed new arrivals for a while.

I can't think of any viewing lines that long in my lifetime.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. I just took a look at the live feed, and it does look faster now

They seem to have persuaded people to go in double lines each side, and they're not giving each other so much space alone at the coffin. I'd think it's going faster than a couple of seconds per person, overall, so maybe they'll get over 200,000 past.

[dickthegrouch]

5. It was 16 hours wait time at 8am BST /nt