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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ... challenge: find and plot 10 red weather balloons scattered at undisclosed locations across the country. The first person to identify the location of all the balloons and enter them on the challenge Web site will win a $40,000
...the balloons will be in readily accessible locations, ...roadways and accompanied by DARPA representatives. All balloons are scheduled to go on display at all locations at 10:00AM(ET) until...4:00 PM on Sat Dec 5
Originally posted by Scorched_Ohio
Other forums' members, who saw this article before me, suggested that this is an operation to detect how fast the American people can mobilize into a group to accomplish a mission and how the use of internet/telecommunication resources will play a role in that mission. What are your opinions, ATSers?
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Originally posted by prof-rabbit
The people who do find them are going to be very clever and think outside the box, I see employment opportunities for those people.
Originally posted by Scorched_Ohio
In early December 2009, The Evil Clown, DARPA, will be hosting a "balloon hunt".
Originally posted by spacebot
Originally posted by prof-rabbit
The people who do find them are going to be very clever and think outside the box, I see employment opportunities for those people.
So people are urged to use the internet and any plain means available (social connections) in order to find 10 balloons and receive the prize of 40.k
Also if they appear to be extremely efficient in their quests maybe there will be employment opportunities for them?
Lets use the above analogy for something else. In a real case scenario, the employed persons are put in charge of a project and have to develop a method or a system where people shall use plain means to spot let us say ..10 dirty bombs scattered throughout the US.
Originally posted by skepticantiseptic
I predict this will be solved within 1 hour or less. Will need to use a flash mob type advertising event to get the word out.The people who do it will share equally. It will take a person who knows how to organize people via twitter instant messaging, and a site to all report to with codes to enter so the site remembers who found each balloon first. Easy really.
[edit on 2-11-2009 by skepticantiseptic]