A fallen flower flew back to its branch! No, it was a butterfly. -Moritake
DARAP is starting up a new challenge, this time for the 40th anniversary of the internet.
For a prize of $40,o00 you just need to find the latitude and longitude of ten red weather balloons scattered across the United States.
I don’t know if you can register in teams or if it is purely individual (at least officially). This will be fun to follow as I see several things occurring that could undermine the contest (or perhaps that is part of the contest).
- People posting the location of the balloons online for everyone to access.
- Doing the same but with slightly or completely incorrect data.
- Fake balloons showing up where they will be conveniently found by others.
- Selling balloon locations for cash or prize percentage (though I would not trust this).
- A balloon being found then removed by the person who found it (this may just disqualify this particular balloon).
If I somehow find one of these balloons in Seattle somewhere I will probably fall into the first category and post its location online, though I won’t give the latitude and longitude as I don’t have a GPS.
I just hope that at least some fake balloons start showing up.
