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11.22.09

DARPA Celebrates Internet Anniversary with Bizarre Balloon Challenge

The DoD mad science lab wants you to use social networking to find 10 weather balloons

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 10.30.2009 at 12:00 pm 8 Comments

Most DARPA challenges serve some sort of obvious military or intelligence purpose. But the agency has us scratching our heads over its latest competition, the Network Challenge: a $40,000 cash prize will go to the first person who finds the correct latitude and longitude of ten weather balloons located within the continental United States.

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DARPA Wants A Few Good Space Debris Cleaners

Pentagon seeks solutions for clearing space junk from Earth orbit

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 09.18.2009 at 12:04 pm 19 Comments

Mad science agency DARPA has a new addition to its wish list: technology to clean up thousands of pieces of orbiting space junk. Surely, world peace can't come far behind on the agenda.

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