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

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 stunts?

OT: DARPA red balloon challenge

2009-10-29 Thread Adam N
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 them will be

Re: OT: DARPA red balloon challenge

2009-10-29 Thread Mensanator
On Oct 29, 10:27 pm, Adam N a...@varud.com 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