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Post by peteetongman on Mar 12, 2014 9:13:13 GMT -5
good luck getting on the website tho ;-) A website, Tomnod.com, has been set up to enable the public to help in solving the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The plane and its passengers—239 in all—vanished from radar as it headed to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8. Tomnod, a Mongolian word that translates to “Big Eye,” is owned by Colorado-based satellite company Digital Globe. The company trained five satellites on the region of the Gulf of Thailand, the plane’s last known location. The satellites transmit data and photos of the area on the Tomnod website. It is hoped that through millions of crowdsourcing volunteers acting as a large virtual search party, signs of the missing plane will be found. The online response was so immense that the site required emergency maintenance. Before the site went down, there had already been six million map views, with half a million users signing up. The crash is a good sign, the company said, because it means that many people are interested in helping out. The uploaded images have been getting a lot of tags, and the company said that they will be uploading more images, including those taken by satellites above the Strait of Malacca. www.webpronews.com/tomnod-website-set-up-to-involve-public-in-the-search-for-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-2014-03www.tomnod.com/nod/
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Post by peteetongman on Mar 15, 2014 14:57:17 GMT -5
oh cool Tomnod is back online
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