Find Balloons For DARPA, Make Money For Charity
GPS treasure hunting website Geocaching.com [http://www.geocaching.com] is giving you the chance to make a heavy donation to charity, all on DARPA's coin.
Along with all the Metal Gears, leaping surveillance drones [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91591-U-S-Military-Develops-Jumping-Urban-Hopper-Robots] or cyborg beetles [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/95032-DARPA-Builds-Cyborg-Beetles] it makes, DARPA was instrumental in the creation of the internet, and to mark the 40th anniversary of DARPAnet, it is offering a $40,000 prize to the first person that can supply it with the co-ordinates of ten numbered red weather balloons it has placed around the continental USA.
This is where Geocaching.com [http://www.geocaching.com] step in, as it is offering to not only donate the entire prize money to charity, but is also offering to add another $10,000 to the pot, provided that the site wins the challenge. All you need to do is to send an e-mail to [email protected] if you see one of the balloons, or if someone you know has seen one.
The balloons will only be visible today - on Saturday the 5th December 2009 - so tell you friends and family, ideally via the internet, and see if we can't do something really positive. The $50,000 pot will be donated to schools who need GPS equipment, chosen through DonorsChoose.org [http://www.donorschoose.org]
Read more about DARPA's challenge here [https://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/default.aspx] and get up to the minute updates about Geocaching's progress here [http://www.10balloonies.com/].
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Along with all the Metal Gears, leaping surveillance drones [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91591-U-S-Military-Develops-Jumping-Urban-Hopper-Robots] or cyborg beetles [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/95032-DARPA-Builds-Cyborg-Beetles] it makes, DARPA was instrumental in the creation of the internet, and to mark the 40th anniversary of DARPAnet, it is offering a $40,000 prize to the first person that can supply it with the co-ordinates of ten numbered red weather balloons it has placed around the continental USA.
This is where Geocaching.com [http://www.geocaching.com] step in, as it is offering to not only donate the entire prize money to charity, but is also offering to add another $10,000 to the pot, provided that the site wins the challenge. All you need to do is to send an e-mail to [email protected] if you see one of the balloons, or if someone you know has seen one.
The balloons will only be visible today - on Saturday the 5th December 2009 - so tell you friends and family, ideally via the internet, and see if we can't do something really positive. The $50,000 pot will be donated to schools who need GPS equipment, chosen through DonorsChoose.org [http://www.donorschoose.org]
Read more about DARPA's challenge here [https://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/default.aspx] and get up to the minute updates about Geocaching's progress here [http://www.10balloonies.com/].
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