Help scour the seas around malaysia at tomnod.com

[applegrove]

http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014/map/22364

[longship]

1. I will R&K this because crowd sourcing is cool.

But I don't think this is up to the task unless lots of people are in on it. And I mean lots and lots of people. Even then, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Good luck if you try it. I can't here because I don't have the bandwidth. I would be tempted if I did.

[applegrove]

2. I did it for half an hour straight. Will go back to it later. I think many people are doing it.

Remember this is the whole world. Then they have algorithms which will diagnose the most common found items for a closer look.

[applegrove]

3. I found a boat shaped thing.

[ohheckyeah]

15. Is this what you found?

Looks like two boat shaped objects to me:

[applegrove]

16. Nope. It was much bigger than those.

And on the left of the rectangle. You could see the bow shape. And it was 30 or 40 feet long.

[ohheckyeah]

17. Does what I found look like boats to you?

I've done 400 sections tonight but have to quit to get some sleep.

[applegrove]

18. I assume those white blips are waves cresting in the wind

because you see them in groups as if a gust has just come along and made them crest together. And then sometimes there are no white dots and that would be calm seas. When the sea turned inky I tagged them because that could ne fuel. Wow. 400. I'm not worthy.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Could you please tell me who you did the screen print so I can take a pic of

what I found?

[ohheckyeah]

23. I just hit

Alt and Print Screen and pasted it in PhotoShop.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. me too. did you screen print it? I tried but couldn't. nt

[applegrove]

24. I don't know how to screen print. And I assume it was actually a working boat. But I alerted it.

Just in case.

[onestepforward]

4. The site is having technical difficulties right now.

I'll check back later.

[Tsiyu]

5. Site still down but will check it out later

Who knows?

This could work

[applegrove]

6. I logged off so there would be room for more people. Asia is up so I'm sure this

site is highly used there.

[Tsiyu]

10. That's true

Maybe I'll try in teh AM

Bedtime for me anyway if I could just close the laptop lol

Thanks for linkie

[Cha]

7. NOt working yet.. not sure what it is?

[applegrove]

8. You get in and are presented with satellite photos of the oceans around

Veitnam and Malaysia. The resolution is big enough that you could see an inflatable raft, an oil slick or some plane wreckage in the water. When you see something that looks like one of the above you circle it using their tags. Then you move on to the next photo. In whatever order you want to look at. Meanwhile the website has algorithms that take all the croud-sourced tags and adds them all up. When say a few hundred people have tagged one spot in the ocean they will automatically take a closer look. The satellite photos of the ocean are from the last few days. So evidence may be there from the day of the crash which no longer exists. They are hoping through crowd-sourcing they will find clues to where the plane hit the ocean. Going back in time and with numbers of eyes to do something good. Because we all feel so helpless.

[Cha]

9. WOW.. Technology! Awesome.. thanks apple.

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You're on this.. do you think it's possible for a plane to disappear into the Ocean there and not leave a trace? Certainly deep sea divers will have the apparatus to discover something if it's there?

[applegrove]

11. I saw some expert say that if the plane

had broken up at high altitude or crashed into the ocean it would have left a huge debris field. And that the metal parts of the plane are honeycombed so they would float. But if the plane had landed on the ocean like Sully Sullenberger and fail to be watertight it could have sunk without leaving much in the way of clues. Thats the latest speculation I‘ve seen. I also don‘t think it is very deep ocean so that may make it easier to find.

[Cha]

12. Thanks.. yeah, it's a puzzler alright. Poor Peeps on board. :(

That's right.. so it's not looking like it exploded in air.

[greyl]

13. Working here in Firefox, but only after disabling Adblock.

(just allowing all scripts to run didn't work)

When you see the grid of rectangles, click one of them to load its corresponding satellite imagery.

[Tsiyu]

21. Kick for the Am crowd

seems to be working now....