Help Find Steve Fosset

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Just passing this along. It's kind of neat actually. I just got an email saying recent satellite imagery and volunteer "HITs" have been loaded into Amazon Mechanical Turk. Anyone with a spare moment can examine a small square of the search area and find any objects that might be worth looking into.

All you'll need is an Amazon.com account (which is free and I imagine many of you already have.) If you have Google Earth installed you'll be able to look closer.

http://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?requesterId=A1U5V688O4PR3V

Click on "View a HIT in this group" on the upper right of the blue box. I think it more or less explains itself from there.

(As a result you may get an email about once a month from mturk from then on, fair warning, but it's a smal amount of email.)

(EDIT: If you get a red box when you click "Accept hit" it means you spent too long waiting and someone else took the HIT. The mturk code has always been kinda crappy in this regard. Just keep clicking accept until you get a HIT and then do it.)

(EDIT2: you don't have to circle things, you just mark whether you see something or not.)

[Babsbrain]

1. How do you circle something?

I am on the program (amazing) but I see no directions on how to mark something suspicious. thanks

[skids]

2. Sorry...

You don't you just click whether you see something or not. I wrote that before actually doing one of the HITs myself.

It's a good thing because circling something would probably mean java code which is always really slow.

I guess what we are doing is just pre-filtering the images so the interesting ones get sent to an expert team.

[Babsbrain]

3. ok...thanks and thanks for this link. n/t

[5X]

4. Umm, google earth images are not real time,

or even necessarily recent.

[skids]

5. These images are...

...The instructions show you how to point google earth at a set of recent images.

[soothsayer]

6. jeez, we already have the military (led by a Maj. Gen) looking for him

or are they REALLY looking for a missing nuke! (conspiracy theorists say Fossett is a cover story so they can search the desert for a missing nuke from that recent flight that either fell off accidentally, or was purposefull dropped as a false flag but did not explode)

lol, who knows anymore. this is the guy in charge:

Maj. Gen. Henry C. "Hank" Morrow is

Commander, 1st Air Force,

and

Commander, Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command
Region, Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.

[Quixote1818]

7. Interesting, it drops by 20 every time I click on a hit

There are only 10,530 hits left and when I started ten minutes ago there were over 11,000 hits available. At this rate with so many people looking, the area will be completely scanned in a couple or three hours.

[skids]

8. Well, HITs generally get added back...

...I wouldn't assume that's all the HITs available, just they load a batch into the system at a time.