Comments on: Can Google Do What Amazon Couldn’t? The Search For Steve Fossett In The Nevada Desert

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:30:02 +0000

Getting google earth users to search sections is definately the best idea - does anyone know whether this was done, if not why not ?

By: lucy in the sky

lucy in the sky — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:09:20 +0000

EXACT BIRTH TIME ON BIRTH CERT
FOR STEVE FOSSETT…WANTED!!!!!!!

CAN AND WILL SOME ONE PLEASE PASS ON …..THANKS……

HEY….STEVE I’M…… STILL LOOKING!!!!!!….
LOVE, LUCY

By: wyatt earp

wyatt earp — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:04:17 +0000

what is the reward for the discovery of steve fossett and his aircraft?

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:12:39 +0000

Gosh - it’s like a live version of “Where’s Wally”.

By: AyJay

AyJay — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:13:29 +0000

Amazon and Google have gone to considerable expense to get this system where everyone can help with the search. Yet if you do find information it doesn’t seem to get in the right hands to be acted on soon enough. I believe it would be very helpful to have a central website setup to allow people with sightings of interest to post lat/long coordinates so others could review and comment. I have quickly created such a website here at fossettsightings.blogspot.com
I invite anyone using Amazon Turkelse to post “hot” lat/long coordinates for review there.

By: Joy Lowry

Joy Lowry — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:54:06 +0000

Found a couple of planes and either the ground or the image had blue markings nearby as if someone wanted that area to be dedicated as “old news’.

In google earth, how do you know if you are seeing new images?

By: Arny

Arny — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:35:01 +0000

Jim Gray story gives an occasion to reflexions

By: Stella Roy

Stella Roy — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:46:03 +0000

Let’s hope GOOGLE EARTH can help to find him. This is the time that Earth can be used to great cause.

-Stella Roy
http://www.google.co.in/search.....&meta=

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:32:39 +0000

Apparently the info on how to report a find is on the page which downloads from this information

http://www.mturk.com/mturk/pre.....p;kw=Flash

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:56:40 +0000

Since he is most likely dead from a plane crash the searchers should use radar and other tools to look for hovering scavenger birds like turkey vultures and ravens.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:17:46 +0000

Couldnt he have crashed in an pool of water or a lake???

It apears to be a dessert but there is much water there…..

Its just a thought…..

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:18:45 +0000

I was browsing through some of the satellite imagery in the provided KMZ file for 10 minutes and then found a downed plane which has the dimensions of Fossett’s plane. Now who do I send these coordinates to? I can’t find any contact info address on the Mechanical Turk page.

By: Igor Carron

Igor Carron — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:17:23 +0000

Thank you Jen.

By: Jason Boerner

Jason Boerner — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:05:54 +0000

So I was just playing with Google Earth and found what I think could be a plane. Is there anyway to get someone to look who may know what the heck they are looking for?

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By: Jennifer Whitley

Jennifer Whitley — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:41:34 +0000

A Mechanical Turk project has now been set up, presumably with updated imagery (DigitalGlobe was scheduled to acquire new imagery of the area on Saturday). Go here to help: http://www.mturk.com/mturk/pre.....w=HomePage

Jen

By: Igor Carron

Igor Carron — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:26:02 +0000

Folks,

I have updated my thoughts on using a high altitude balloon for search and rescue here:
http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.c.....ities.html

Igor.

By: Dave L

Dave L — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:17:42 +0000

I don’t know how old the google earth images are but if they were recent we could surely help. I have found the Flying M Runway and a couple of hot air balloons just over a mile north of it. There is an interesting shape at
N 38deg 39′ 42.47″, W 119deg 00′ 13.45″ its north of the ranch, not south but could be an old crash or just nothing. If you look over in Arizona there are several aircraft in the images that are in flight. Look north of Phoenix they are marked. So I know it is possible to see a plane in Google Earth. I would be glad to spend several hours searching known new images.

By: John Prince

John Prince — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:29:38 +0000

“Google may have taken new satellite photos over the last few days which may have information that can help find him.”

Google has lots of tech, but no satellites. It licenses data from DigitalGlobe (which has a satellite) and some aerial companies (who have planes with cameras). It did just buy a company that makes such cameras, Image America. If the company can help pull together recent data for comparison, that would help. But, Google itself likely can’t provide recent data.

By: Jimmy Huen

Jimmy Huen — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:09:08 +0000

Best of luck. I really hope this turns out well. Steve Fossett is living a childhood dream of mine … as an adventurer. Hope he is found safe.

By: observer

observer — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:58:28 +0000

Who is John Galt?

By: steve ballmer

steve ballmer — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:04:57 +0000

I hope they are successful, let’s lokk and pray for him.

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: gerald

gerald — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:32:13 +0000

NOW SHIFT PARADIGM

USA Intel could use the same methods to search areas for terrorists, guns, trucks with guns, ppl planting IED’s, burring bodies, attacks, groups waiting in ambush, search areas troops have not swept yet, watch ingress and egress points, military formations, filling tankers with explosives, rockets
and so on.

Their are thousands of volunteers waiting, you could even do double or triple coverage.
Un-used resources…
NSA and CIA note.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:14:04 +0000

We must stop John Galt!

By: Ange Rose

Ange Rose — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:58:51 +0000

imagine if Google emailed every gmail user everyday for the next couple of weeks a small focused section of the entire area that needs to be searched and that is search able with a glance. If the user searched the segment they indicate searched. As well if they would like to search additional segments they click next, showing the user another magnified section. This approach has more pros than cons. More Importantly it makes it easy to help and because every section that has been searched is indicated the process is efficient. http://jesusinabusinesssuit.wordpress.com/

By: Saagar

Saagar — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:09:48 +0000

Such incidents prove that technology could be of some real use rather than some 2.0 crap Hope they find this guy !!