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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:Google Earth by John3 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Google Earth images appear to be seriously outdated. I did a search for my business and the image shows our building as it was in 2005 prior to a second floor addition. Did Google Earth update the images for the region where Steve's plane may have crashed? If not, there isn't much point to viewing that area using Google Earth.

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    "We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers." Carl Sagan
  2. Re: Help Find Steve Fossett by ozbird · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Was he wearing a red and white striped shirt and beanie?

  3. Re:And for other searches by reboot246 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Easy. Bin Laden is in Pakistan, the WMDs are in Syria, and Waldo is in Alabama.