Steve Fossett

Ron Wanttaja wrote:

That means you will have to zoom in on, individually, each person visible
on the image. *With average luck, you'll have to examine 200,000
individuals before you find your friend.

.... and that's why you can help with the search:

http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?g...G35XEZJZG21T60

You get presented with a recent satellite image of the area and can flag it
if you think it bears further investigation (note: the site is a preview,
you have to click "Accept HIT" to actually submit your opinion). If enough
people do this, we might actually manage to scan the entire area of
interest in a short time.

Ad.

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On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:23:37 +0200, Adhominem wrote in :

... you can help with the search:

http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?g...G35XEZJZG21T60

You get presented with a recent satellite image of the area and can flag it
if you think it bears further investigation (note: the site is a preview,
you have to click "Accept HIT" to actually submit your opinion). If enough
people do this, we might actually manage to scan the entire area of
interest in a short time.

I did 102 hits. I only suggested further review on
one of them.

Had to stop a couple of times to prove I was human.
I wrote a macro to do the clicking for me.

Marty
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"ad" == adhominem writes:
ad ... and that's why you can help with the search:

ad http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?g...G35XEZJZG21T60

ad You get presented with a recent satellite image of the area

Hey, are the folks organizing the Google Earth search handing out the
searchable images in a deliberate fashion? You know, so the area is
systematically viewed, not randomly.
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