Google Earth to Help In Search For Fosset

[CaptJack]

For anyone interested -

Google Earth and Amazon Mechanical Turk have released up to date satellite images of the search area for anyone interested in helping with the search for Steve Fosset, according to this BBC article:
BBC News - Fosset Sought Via Google Earth

The Mechanical Turk link, through which the public can assist in the search, is through here (New users have to register):
Amazon Mechanical Turk

 

[Fox Mulder]

He's dead, Jim.

 

[TerriO]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to tell anyone whether or not to make jokes about what you think is funny, but I do have to question the rationale in making jokes about people dying today of all days. And yes, I admit, I may be a little more sensitive on the subject than the average person, so that's why I'm just saying this as it is. No friendlies, no cautions, no anything except an "is this really the best time for something like that"?

The odds are very much against finding him alive, yes, but stranger things have happened. Anything is possible.

 

[T J]

Fox Mulder said:
He's dead, Jim.

...I mean... Oh... thats not right...

 

[Gertch]

I'm glad they are trying to help out. Hopefully some good news will come of this. His friends say he's a survivor and has made it out of other tough situations.

 

[anti-matter]

Steve is a pretty resourceful person...if he survived the crash he could survive that environment. However if you have a broken leg or like traumas your basically in a world of shit...hell just moving yourself with a un-splintered fracture can cause a fatal internal injury. Time is the key here...

...slightly OT but does anyone think it suspicious the planes transponder didn't go off? Besides I'm thinking a person of his experience would have redundant emergency transponders as well.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Well, a lady on the radio said he was known to walk 30 miles one time, and knows how to survive. I think there's a good chance he'll show up alive months after thought of supposedly being dead.

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

How deep into the desert could he have flown? Such things are unknown to me as a denizen of Northern Ireland, you really can't get lost there unless you fall into a peat bog.

Its been one news story where the technology has fascinated me more than the troubles of the unfortunate individual. I suppose its nothing new to distribute computing problems like this, but the outcome is more tangible in this case.

 

[tharpdevenport]

They're calling off the active search. There will be two or three choppers (or something like that) searching by themselves for a little longer, but it's pretty much over.


One may wwonder if he was killed off because of competition...