DARPA Network Challenge- find a balloon!
UPDATE: The kids from M.I.T. already found the balloons and won the bucks by Saturday evening!!
We just stumbled across what might be the biggest hide-and-seek game in America: the DARPA Network Challenge. You might also win $40,000!
Rather than rewrite the whole thing, here is a summary of the project from the DARPA Network Challenge Website:
About the DARPA Network Challenge
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems.
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. The balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roads.
We learned about the whole thing from the Geocaching.com website. As both regular readers know, we are positively insane about the sport known as Geocaching.
Find the balloons and WIN!
So…today, if you are out and about and happen to see a big red weather ballon, make of note and log-in to one of these sites.
If you happen to win the 40K clams, we would expect the customary finders-fee!
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