Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Using the Web to find a crashed pilot & his plane


If you have some time on your hands (and even if you don't but want to explore something cool with the Web) try using something called Amazon's Mechanical Turk (on the Web) to help find Steve Fossett, the millionaire pilot who mysteriously disappeared, along with his airplane, in/over Nevada on Sept. 3.

Did he crash? Is he hiding out at some young woman's farm house? Was he so entranced by the desert scenery that he couldn't concentrate on flying? Did a UFO accost him?

Use AMT and Google Earth to help scour the terrain and locate him.

(See above link on how to do this.)

2 comments:

rb said...

This is an amazing use of technology, hopefully it will help to solve the mystery of his disappearance.

carolina magic said...

Yes, the world we're living in is getting webbier and webbier every day.