Sentences with phrase «red weather balloons»

Tweets and status updates have been buzzing for weeks about DARPA's Network Challenge, even though the event does not officially kick off until 10 A.M. Eastern time Saturday when hundreds of technophiles will compete in an effort to be the first to track down the locations of 10 large red weather balloons positioned across the U.S. throughout the day (pdf).

Manuel Cebrian, a computational social scientist now based at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Clayton, Australia, won that challenge with his colleagues by using social media to hunt down 10 red weather balloons released across the United States.

The M.I.T. and Georgia Tech teams proved most successful in using social networks to pinpoint the locations of 10 red weather balloons scattered throughout the U.S.

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Six green weather balloon stations sponsored by well - meaning humanitarian / scientific research groups perched on a red landing platform.

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My understanding from direct talks with Ferenc and his collaborators is that he used weather balloons to calculate the clear - sky total infra - red optical opacity.