Remember Balloon Boy? All the excitement?
Here is a fun thing to do today if you are out and about.
We can't make any money (grrr),(and you don't need to be a geocacher), but we can see if the GLP Community is able to coordinate information and accomplish locating these 10 red weather balloons. They are spread across the USA, today only, from 10 am to 4 pm eastern time. Please read info that follows from groundspeak:
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"As part of the nationwide DARPA event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Internet, we're enlisting geocachers to be part of a fun social networking/GPS technology challenge.
The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental United States that will only be visible during tomorrow's (12/5) daylight hours. The winner will receive $40,000."
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OP: Here is the DARPA site if you wish to check it out and perhaps work solo and win the cash:
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link to www.darpa.mil]
OP: back to the info from groundspeak:
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"If Groundspeak wins the challenge with your help, we will throw in another $10,000 of our own money. The full $50,000 prize will go to schools that need GPS equipment through DonorsChoose.org.
Tomorrow, December 5th, a group of Groundspeak Lackeys will meet up in the DARPA War Room at Groundspeak's Headquarters to gather information online of the possible locations of the 10 weather balloons. We hope you will follow our attempts to win the challenge and help us along the way by gathering information both online and on the ground. Do you want to help?
Visit [
link to www.10balloonies.com] - our official web site for Groundspeak's team. We'll provide up to the minute updates there and on Twitter at [
link to twitter.com]
Also, if you are out running errands or taking a morning stroll and spot one of the balloons, send us an email at
[email protected].
The balloons will be numbered, so we need to know what number is on the balloon along with the coordinates for the location and any additional information (such as "saw from afar." Coordinates need not be exact, (within 1 mile of actual coordinates will do) so an address will work.
Even if you aren't in the continental US you can still help! Information will be spreading through social networks, blogs and news outlets."
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GLP Community, we are one of those social networks! Please look around today and post anything you may see.
Please keep this bumped. It could be interesting. Thanks.
United States
Netherlands
