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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. Not all missing persons can be seen from space by searchr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To be fair, most missing persons are hiding in bus terminals and seedy motels. Even if it sadly takes someone of celebrity, even someone whose personal hobby is to put themselves into ridiculous danger, to develop a new form of distributed wetware computing, it's still for the better.

    Maybe if someone had thought of this earlier, that unlucky family in Oregon wouldn't have been stranded in their car for a week. Or maybe, now there's a new option for the next time that does happen.

    Forget SETI-at-Home. I'd much rather play "FindTheLostPeople-at-Home".

  2. Re:Found a plane... by Fullerene · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The scale make it a little bit small, but I think it is exactly the sort of thing that they are telling us to report to them. Contact the HIT requestor via Amazon perhaps?

    Looks like a plane to me too.

  3. Mod Parent Up by Nasarius · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd say that's a hit. The object matches the dimensions of a Super Decathlon, according to Google Earth.

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  4. walking into the light by Original+Replica · · Score: 4, Interesting

    True, it could be a publicity stunt. But if it isn't intentional, then he's dead. He had enough experience to know to have an ELT/EPRIB on his plane. If he didn't activate it when he went down, it's because he was too injured to flip a switch to turn it on. Id the wreck was bad enough to break his ELT/EPRIB, then he didn't stand a chance.://www.nctackle.com/acraq406mhzg1.html http://www.avionix.com/store/elt.html

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  5. I think I found something... by Backyard+Billy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    38 3'24.02"N 11914'56.55"W It looks like a plane, it's about 20 ft in length and has a 23-24 ft wingspan. I don't know how to contact them but if anyone here can communicate with them, please do. Don't forget to credit me if it turns out to be his plane.

  6. Re:Like who? by ejito · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They found SIX separate undocumented plane crash sites while searching for Fosset... why is it they can find these plane crashes while searching for Fosset, but couldn't find any of those before hand?

    It's also quite illogical to ask "who" didn't get attention -- if they got attention, then we'd know who they were.