http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070925/sc_livescience/satellitesearchescouldspotbigfootlochnessmonsterSatellite Searches Could Spot Bigfoot, Loch Ness MonsterBenjamin Radford
LiveScience's Bad Science Columnist
LiveScience.com Tue Sep 25, 1:55 PM ET
Adventurer Steve Fossett went missing Sept. 3 about 70 miles southeast of Reno, Nevada, in a small plane. He left no flight plan, and searchers have combed tens of thousands of square miles of Nevada and California. After weeks of fruitless searches, and with the survival window closing, Web users were enlisted to help in Fossett's rescue, from the comfort of their own homes.
Using a program called Mechanical Turk, high-resolution satellite imagery of the search area was collected and analyzed. Participants were shown a single satellite image and asked to note any objects or wreckage that could be a plane or its debris.
The search did solve a few mysteries: several previously unknown small plane wrecks
