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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. I, for one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... welcome our new missing adventurer overlord ... oh, wait.

  2. In related news... strange lack of "First Posts" by Goldenhawk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In related news, no Slashdotters posted a "First Post" response for a matter of several hours. This never-before seen phenomenon was tentatively attributed to the entire Slashdot community immediately joining the virtual search.

    *grin*

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    --Brandon / Split Infinity Music

  3. In desperate times like this.... by WwWonka · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm surprised the search and rescue teams haven't called on the one man fit for this job...

    ...it's time to send in LEEEEEEEEERRRROOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEEENKINS!