tinerj
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Years ago, in the early days of the Internet, something went missing -- plane, boat, submarine, bomb, etc. My memory is fuzzy about just what. But the military, I think, set up a way on the Internet for people to place a marker on a map where they thought it might be.
Either by design or accident, ordinary people on the Internet could place their marker for its location. About 25,000 responded. Slowly as more results came it, the pin-points began to cluster. When they did the search at the center of the cluster, they found the missing object.
All right, I've searched the Internet and can find no reference to what I only vaguely remember. This was back in the days of AltaVista search and Mosaic Web browser.
For some reason, nothing like it was every tried again. (Tell me I'm wrong because it seems like a good idea.)
Why it worked I have no solid idea. Perhaps during the early days of the Internet it was difficult to trace back who posted the "good" pinpoints, so those working at the grunt level posted them because their Stupidvisors at a higher level dismissed their ideas.
Seems like if something like this could be done for Flight 370, it might open up some possibilities.
By the way, a recent analysis of comments on twitter found the comments are running a couple of days AHEAD of the official line. It seems, somehow, a large group of people, including some that may be clueless, can converge on useful information.
Either by design or accident, ordinary people on the Internet could place their marker for its location. About 25,000 responded. Slowly as more results came it, the pin-points began to cluster. When they did the search at the center of the cluster, they found the missing object.
All right, I've searched the Internet and can find no reference to what I only vaguely remember. This was back in the days of AltaVista search and Mosaic Web browser.
For some reason, nothing like it was every tried again. (Tell me I'm wrong because it seems like a good idea.)
Why it worked I have no solid idea. Perhaps during the early days of the Internet it was difficult to trace back who posted the "good" pinpoints, so those working at the grunt level posted them because their Stupidvisors at a higher level dismissed their ideas.
Seems like if something like this could be done for Flight 370, it might open up some possibilities.
By the way, a recent analysis of comments on twitter found the comments are running a couple of days AHEAD of the official line. It seems, somehow, a large group of people, including some that may be clueless, can converge on useful information.
