To celebrate the Web’s 40th anniversary, DARPA wants to explore social networking’s role in time-critical communication. They will award $US40,000 cash to the first group who finds 10 2.4-metre weather balloons located at fixed locations around the US
Registration begins on December 1, and the balloons will appear on December 5. The first to submit the latitude and longitude of all 10 balloons walks away with the cash. Pretty cool. Full rules at: [DARPA via BoingBoing]
John Fenley
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 6:05 PMRed40k.com will be setup to take balloon location submissions and paypal $3000 to the first email address associated with a correct balloon location, if we win the $40k.
MIT
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 1:34 PMJoin the MIT team, invite your friends and you can win money, help
science, and help charity!
Find all the information about our approach at
http://balloon.media.mit.edu/
THANK YOU AND… GOOD LUCK!
The MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team