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Rescue by E-mail

Posted by timothy on from the GPS-is-your-friend dept.

BlameFate writes: "This neat article over at The Scotsman tells of a guy trying to be the first person to walk to the north pole solo. He got marooned and needed rescuing though, so how did he co-ordinate the rescue attempt? Why, by making a 400m runway in the snow taking a digital photo of it and then e-mailing the photo to the rescue team in Canada of course! The Scotsman is short on details; but BBC News is out for me right now."

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  1. kinda cool by squaretorus · · Score: 3, Funny

    but somehow I expect populisation of this kind of technology to involve me being sent an awful lot of photos of shoes, skirts, and tops along with the single phrase "what do you think" or "does my bum look big in this".

    Not quite as cool, but a much bigger service to mankind saving us from shopping trips with 'the lass' every weekend.

    At least we'll have more than a TXT MSG to respond to - WHT CLR SKRT WT MY BLK SPRKLY TP TNT? PNK / BLK ?

    response WTFDIC

  2. Yeah by psavo · · Score: 4, Funny

    And then they e-mailed him back a picture of an aeroplane...

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