50,000 Volunteers Join Distributed Search for Steve Fossett

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Over 2 million satellite images have been reviewed so far. Quote from Wired News:


Up to 50,000 people are hunting for missing aviator Steve Fossett, in a distributed search using satellite images and Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

The army of online volunteers is scrutinizing satellite images that show small chunks of the 17,000-square-mile region where Fossett's plane is thought to have crashed.



50,000 Volunteers Join Distributed Search for Steve Fossett