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Sep
10
2007
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5:53pm Steve Fossett Rescue: Is this his plane?

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - A TGU reader Robert Poli has commented on the Steve Fossett search post to say he’s found something in Google Earth. Look at coordinates: N38* 50′ 04″ W118*52′45.37″ small, white, right angle image on mountainside. A quick check of the coo[...] Read More »

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6:10am Steve Fossett Rescue: Call In The Technology Pt II

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Call in the crowd! Artificial intelligence is now being used in the form of Amazon Mechanical Turk to track Steve’s position. The idea is to complete simple tasks that people do better than computers by splitting up the images into tiny squares and getting 1000s [...] Read More »


Sep
4
2007
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10:03pm Rescue: U.S Adventurer Steve Fossett Missing

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - This post is playing out all over the interenet, so I thought I’d try and add value to it rather than regurgitate. At 9:00 am, on Monday, September 3, 2007, Fossett took off in a single-engine plane from a private air strip known as Flying M Ranch ( 38°36â€[...] Read More »