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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. Steve Fosset? by j.a.mcguire · · Score: 0, Troll

    More like Steve Fossil! I thought the search for this man was a cover for the US Govt to search the desert their recent missing nuke from that B-52?

  2. Amazon's incompetence by deathtopaulw · · Score: 0, Troll

    they should take a page out of galaxyzoo's book and make this easier you have to like... sign in, then figure out what a HIT is then accept it, then click yes or no, then remember to click auto accept hit, then randomly it goes "hey wait aren't you a bot?" and you have to enter in letters thanks for impeding the search for this guy amazon

  3. Another Post 9-11 Screw-up by Timtimes · · Score: 0, Troll

    Tracking every call and email but STILL not properly tracking aircraft? Somebody remind Bush that we weren't attacked by email or phone on 9-11. Enjoy.

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  4. Re:Like who? by RedWizzard · · Score: 0, Troll

    FYI, rangers and such take their jobs very seriously. So far as I know, everyone reported missing in the wilderness gets a full spare-no-expense search and rescue effort. They look for "nobodies" just as hard as they're looking for Fossett, and the dedicated folks who do those tough jobs would take great offense at your ignorant suggestion otherwise. You are right, of course. However it is interesting that (AFAIK) no one has tried this sort of public search using satellite images before. And it will be interesting to see if is is used for other people missing in the wilderness.
  5. Re:Nevada by MBraynard · · Score: 0, Troll
    Why can't an AI do this?

    And if this is a serious attempt to find the guy, why not just fund a few hundred Indians at $2/hr or so to go through this.

  6. Re:Not all missing persons can be seen from space by nospam007 · · Score: 1, Troll

    For a distributed human image recognition project I think classify-galaxies-at-home is more rewarding than "find-Fossett's-corpse"
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    It's the Fosset_NOT-at-home project.