Re: OT: DARPA red balloon challenge

2009-10-31 Thread John Nagle
Adam N wrote: All, In case people hadn't heard, DARPA just announced what I think is the coolest competition ever: http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/ On December 5, DARPA will raise 10 red weather balloons somewhere in the US. The first person to get the location of all 10 balloons and submit

Re: OT: DARPA red balloon challenge

2009-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 20:27 -0700, Adam N wrote: [...] > On December 5, DARPA will raise 10 red weather balloons somewhere in > the US. The first person to get the location of all 10 balloons and > submit them will be given $40k. Hasn't the U.S. had enough weather balloon-related publicity stunt

Re: OT: DARPA red balloon challenge

2009-10-29 Thread Mensanator
On Oct 29, 10:27 pm, Adam N wrote: > All, > > In case people hadn't heard, DARPA just announced what I think is the > coolest competition ever: > > http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/ > > On December 5, DARPA will raise 10 red weather balloons somewhere in > the US.  The first person to get the loc