Find DARPA's Balloons, Win $40K

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 1, 2009 @04:18PM from the in-related-news-no-easter-egg-hunt dept.

coondoggie writes "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency today offered up a rather interesting challenge: find and plot 10 red weather balloons scattered at undisclosed locations across the country. The first person to identify the location of all the balloons and enter them on the challenge Web site will win a $40,000 cash prize. According to the agency, the balloons will be in readily accessible locations, visible from nearby roadways and accompanied by DARPA representatives. All balloons are scheduled to go on display at all locations at 10:00AM (ET) until approximately 4:00 PM on Saturday, December 5, 2009."

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Re:Floating? by Glock27 · 2009-11-02 00:46 · Score: 0, Troll

Any other ideas come floating to mind?
Frivolous waste of government money at the worst possible time?
Our current administration is an idiocracy.

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