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Dec 4, 2009

10 Red Balloons

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ASSEMBLE!

Prefrosh, undergrads, alums, this is a call to action! It is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and accomplish what needs to be done!

Tomorrow, at 10:00 AM (ET), DARPA is deploying Ten Red Weather Balloons all across the country. $40,000 goes to the first team to locate all of them, by any means necessary. The balloons will only be visible until 4:00PM local time, so time is short!

With alumnae, prefrosh, and current students all across the country, who better to win this than a team from MIT?

Register/Report Located Balloons here

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CLICK TO REGISTER!!!
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and be on the lookout tomorrow. If you find a balloon and MIT ends up winning, you get $2,000. Period. Simple as that. The person who invited you gets $1,000. The person who invited that person gets $500. Get it? The rest of the money MIT collects goes to charity. I've now invited all of you, and it's up to you to invite your friends!

Let's do this folks!








video courtesy of Raymond Ma

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Haha. Awesome video! Too bad, I don't live in the US.

Posted by: Parav on December 4, 2009

yea... me neither...

Posted by: anon on December 4, 2009


awesome.
snively, u seem to take interest in everything.

Posted by: anonymous on December 4, 2009

wats up with the 8kbps sounds?

Posted by: 0 on December 4, 2009

This competition sounds awesome. I will gladly be on the lookout for red weather balloons tomorrow. Best of luck to all!

Posted by: Travis (14?) on December 4, 2009

I looked for them, but I saw none. :(

Posted by: VAL ('14?) on December 4, 2009

lol, great stuff. count me in

Posted by: Midhun ('14?) on December 4, 2009

should have been 99 of them.

Posted by: karen on December 4, 2009

Wowww, I'm dumb. I totally skimmed the article and thought it was today. Durr. >.>

I will look tomorrow though.

Posted by: VAL ('14?) on December 4, 2009

Awesome video!!

Posted by: Lydia AK on December 4, 2009

I wonder if any of them will pop up in alaska...

Posted by: up north on December 4, 2009

But what about the other 89?

Posted by: 0 on December 4, 2009

yeaahhh I saw this link on facebook!! hahaha
but yeah i've got the same problem as parav and anon :(

Posted by: Nate '14? on December 4, 2009

Uhh! Looks like a lot of us are from outside the United States.

Posted by: FuLanKe on December 5, 2009

They should get Falcon Heene as the poster child for this effort.

Posted by: Snively is cool on December 5, 2009

For the first (and hopefully last) time in my life, I have to say BOO MIT!!! Nerdfighters are gonna win this, and the money's gonna go for charity!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgB8ucWqRUs&feature=channel

Posted by: Nerdfighters on December 5, 2009

MIT Won!!! :D

https://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/default.aspx

Posted by: VAL ('14?) on December 5, 2009

@Val

!!!

Posted by: Snively on December 5, 2009

Awesome video

Posted by: rajiv on December 5, 2009

I would love to help, but I don't live in the US :(. Anyway, MIT won o/

Posted by: Caio '14? on December 6, 2009

@Val: you really seen to like MIT. I hope you get in, and I hope I get in too. Hopefully, we'll see eachother next year.

Posted by: D on December 7, 2009

pls will u send me your mail address. I just need from u some information. I believe u r the most helpful.......

Posted by: nazmus sadat on December 13, 2009

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