September 12, 2007

Computers being used to search for Steve Fossett

As the search for 63 year old Adventurer Steve Fossett enters its second week, computer users have turned to Google Earth in an attempt to cover the 17,000 square mile area in Nevada. The images have been updated and can be accessed through a system named “Mechanical Turk” by using this system the plane would appear as an image 21 pixels long and 30 pixels wide.

But rescuers have already found two downed planes neither of which was the one that they were looking for, in fact there are 129 known crash sites and over the past fifty years there has been over 300 light aircraft that have gone missing. So this just demonstrates how difficult the search and rescue is.

Hopefully by Google Earth, some remote computer user will come up with the image that everyone is waiting for.

Source [The Guardian]