Welcome to SPOTBIGRED.COM, SPOT BIG RED, a hub for the DARPA NETWORKING CHALLENGE. On December 5, 2009 DARPA will place 10 stationary red weather balloons throughout the United States, we need you to help by searching for red balloons and sending in their locations.

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To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems.

The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental United States. The balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roads.

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