After adventurer Steve Fossett disappeared last week while flying over the Nevada desert, news reports told of Virgin founder Richard Branson scouring satellite images of the area looking for signs ofhis missing friend. Now you too can join the search via Google Earth via Google's Mechanical Turk scheme. Anyone taking part downloads updated satellite images and an associated program that allows them to flag possible crash sites.
The creators of the search scheme said Mr Fossett's plane would appear as an object about "21 pixels long and 30 pixels in wingspan". While local search authorities suggest it's unlikely that Google Earth images will show more than military satellite images, they shouldn't underestimate the rigour of Earthers. You only need to subscribe to "Strange Things on Google Maps" on the Google home page to know the lengths people go to in searching images - a blimp, a sculpture of an iron molecule, the Hollywood sign - and it's updated often.
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