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Help Find Steve Fossett

Posted by kdawson on from the spare-wetware-cycles dept.

An anonymous reader invites us to join in the hunt for the missing Steve Fossett using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. DigitalGlobe, one of Google's imaging partners, has acquired new high-resolution satellite imagery of the area where Fossett disappeared on Monday. The public can now go through this imagery and quickly flag any images that might contain Fossett's plane. Flagged images will receive further review by search and rescue experts.

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  1. Re:I, for one... by Rorzabal · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is better than "Where's Waldo?"!

  2. I couldn't find Steve by 10e6Steve · · Score: 5, Funny

    but I found Waldo!

  3. Re:Google Earth by solevita · · Score: 3, Funny

    into the "Fly To" box in the top left corner of Google Earth.
    It sure is tempting to burn some karma now; could even mention the new flightsim in Google Earth...
  4. high-resolution satellite imagery by nurb432 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cool, can i get some of my neighborhood? The stuff on google is a good 5 years old, if not older. The resolution is pretty poor too.

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    1. Re:high-resolution satellite imagery by jibjibjib · · Score: 2, Funny

      What's the point of having a car if it's spent the last 5 years in your driveway?

  5. Re:what's he wearing? by sentientbeing · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yo mammas so fat when she got lost and they found her on google earth.

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  6. And for other searches by bgspence · · Score: 2, Funny

    where is Bin Laden, or WMDs, or Waldo...

  7. Perhaps.. by Ginger_Chris · · Score: 2, Funny

    I recently lost my mobile phone somewhere in Wadham College gardens, Oxford, and I was wondering if I could get this kind of help to find it. Any takers?

  8. Re:Obligatory question in capitalist America by SEWilco · · Score: 3, Funny

    But can I get some /. karma if I find him?

  9. Re:Turn off the "terrain" by An+Onerous+Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's what *she* said!

    Had a chance to meet her ex, but never took her up on it.

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  10. Re:Like who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've read your post three times and still don't get it. What does your not knowing them have to do with anything?