Hank asks viewers to search for DARPA balloons and report sightings (2009)
ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2009-12-08) · owner: Hank
In December 2009 Hank asked people to look for the DARPA Network Challenge balloons themselves and report any sightings by text, phone or email. Thousands of Nerdfighters sent tens of thousands of tips, though the team may have found only nine of the ten balloons in the real world.
Part of: Nerdfighteria's team for the DARPA Network Challenge (red balloons) (2009)
Told alongside: Hank asks Nerdfighters to join the Search, Discover, and Confirm balloon team (2009) · Hank: send balloon-team sign-ups no emails except about the balloon project (2009)
About: DARPA Network Challenge
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-12-03 (said on 2009-12-04, implied) | asked | Hank asks viewers to look for the balloons themselves and report any sighting by phone, text or email, with location and balloon number. | $40,000 of Red Balloons 00:01:53 |
| 2009-12-06 | thanks | John thanks the thousands of Nerdfighters who sent tens of thousands of tips. | LOSERS!!!! 00:01:25 |
| 2009-12-08 | result reported | Hank says, as he said on Twitter, the team may have found only nine of the ten balloons in the real world. (playful, hedged) | Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! 00:01:36 |
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What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-12-03 (said on 2009-12-04, implied) · $40,000 of Red Balloons — ask: Hank: A report must include a street address or nearby intersection, the balloon's number (without it the report does not count) and ideally a name so they can say thanks. — 00:03:00
- 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank says all is fair in love, war and balloon challenges: MIT did a fantastic job, MIT students are among Nerdfighteria, and nerds can't turn on other nerds; it was a well-played game. (hedged) — 00:01:36