Internet Users Join Search for Steve Fossett

[Up2Late]

Source: NPR

Internet Users Join Search for Steve Fossett

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by Dan Charles

Morning Edition, September 12, 2007 · In Nevada, the search for missing aviator Steve Fossett goes on — and now thousands of amateurs are joining in from their desks. They're using the Internet to look at satellite photos of the part of Nevada where Fossett disappeared, searching for traces of his missing airplane.

Steve Fossett had only been missing for a day or two when his friend, billionaire Richard Branson, told reporters that he was talking with Google, hoping that the company's storehouse of satellite images might help locate the missing aviator.

Getting New Photos

When people who regularly work with satellite images heard this, some of them thought it didn't make sense at first. "I sort of had a couple of reactions," says Adena Schutzberg, executive editor of Directions Magazine, which covers the map-making industry. "My first was, Google can't really help him, because Google doesn't actually create the imagery that's in its products."

Google just buys those images from companies — or governments — that operate satellites. Also, the gorgeous pictures of our planet that are available through Google Earth were taken months or years ago, they won't show you an airplane that went missing last week. "But then my second thought was … that's a really good idea," Schutzberg says. "Because if he gets in touch with Google, then Google can get in touch with the people who provide the data, and then we're up and running."

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I know, some of you are going to say, "Why is so much effort going into finding one guy...?"

Well, it's not just some guy, it's one VERY RICH Guy who, If you were the one who found him in time to save his life might be a very GRATEFUL RICH Guy!

Reward maybe?

Plus, I do this sort of stuff all the time on the Old pictures they have, so doing this to possibly save another mans live is just exciting to me.

Links for more info are at the links above!

[shain from kane]

1. I've found some bleached bones. Do you want the coordinates? Nevermind. It's fossils, not Fossett.

[hlthe2b]

2. Not funny....

[HereSince1628]

3. Thousands search for rich guy lost while playing with expensive toy

the internet goes from echoing the news to making the news...

[plcdude]

4. What is the website

for google earth

[Up2Late]

5. Here's the links...

This Amazon site has the pictures: <http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=9TSZK4G35XEZJZG21T60&kw=Flash>

Here's the link for Google Earth:

<http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html>

I think you need to have both an Amazon.com account and a Google Earth account.

Note: Don't forget to download the plug-in at this link:

<http://s3.amazonaws.com/fossett/geoeye-color.kml>

If you don't, you are just wasting your and everybody else's time, because the plug-in makes it so that you are looking at the new photos.