Steve Fossett

On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:09:53 +0200, Thomas Borchert
wrote:

Ron,

Finding a "before" picture might be a bit challenging. After all, it's
desert...how often is someone going to shoot a high-resolution picture of it?


Well, FWIW, it's a part of desert that (I was told) contains one of the largest
ammo storage facilities in the world. So it might just be photographed a little
bit more often.

Yeah, but do you think those who DO have the pictures of the ammo facilities are
gonna offer them up? :-)

Ron Wanttaja

Ron,

Yeah, but do you think those who DO have the pictures of the ammo facilities are
gonna offer them up? :-)


True. It's at Hawthorne, BTW. Even the Google Earth pix aren't bad.

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On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:19:40 -0700, I wrote:

It's been two weeks....How much water was Fossett carrying?

Ooops, my bad: One week.

Ron Wanttaja

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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"NoneYa" wrote in message
...
We can take pictures of objects on the Earth from space that are 2 inch's
wide. We can take pictures of objects on Mars that are 12 inches wide. Why
can't we find a wrecked airplane in Nevada?? A place that is mostly dirt
and sand with very little vegetation?

WE?

What part are you taking in the search?

Thomas Borchert wrote:
Newps,

That's a bad analogy, we're not looking for one airplane in a sea of
other planes. Remove all the planes in the picture except one. Now try
and find the one plane.


Hey, "we" can't even find Osama when "we" have 6 years to try (in a similar
landscape, I might add).

True, but I don't think Fossett is trying to not be found. :-)

Matt

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.

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"Martin" == Martin writes:

Martin and use software to compare old images with new ones to
Martin identify changes.

I guessing you're not a programmer.

Our $40G/year intelligence expenditure mistakenly identified WMD in
Iraq. Does anybody remember Colin Powell insisting before the
UN--with photgraphic evidence--that WMD's were there?
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On Sep 9, 10:36 am, NoneYa wrote:
We can take pictures of objects on the Earth from space that
are 2 inch's wide. We can take pictures of objects on Mars
that are 12 inches wide. Why can't we find a wrecked
airplane in Nevada?? A place that is mostly dirt and sand
with very little vegetation?

Makes no sense

to a bigot, reality makes little/no sense.



http://www.spacecomputer.com/systems/archer.html

"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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