One shot in a million? Is this the Jim Gray Photo?

scott cate — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:59:00 GMT

I just read on Amy's Blog about the satellite photo's and the Amazon Mechanical Turk Project.

My very first picture was what you see below. The bottom right, looks like the shadow of a little boat. I did a right click on the image, and saved the source, for fear that after login I wouldn't be able to get back to it. And I was right. I'd forgotten my amazon password, and had to reset it. After I went though the password help via email, and finally got logged back in, the picture is gone.

As soon as I get confirmation from Amazon that this picture isn't what they're looking for, I'll remove this post. Sounds weird, but I just couldn't sleep at night, if this image got passed up because of a login issue, and it turned out to really be helpful in some way.

Look in the bottom right quadrant. It's pretty obvious.

http://thumper.pha.jhu.edu/tenacious-processed/hirez/img/R10C05/R10C05-005598938010_01_P001.21_06.png

[UPDATE : 5 Min's after post]
I'm not sure if this is the right thing or not. I feel kind of weird posting this photo. It's a long shot and probably nothing. I've already emailed the mTurk staff using the "contact us" form, but I'm not too confident I'll get a response from a general customer service form. So this is my next best option to get noticed. Obviously if it is something, then time is of the essence.

[UPDATE] Comparison Photo
Based on the comments below, I rechecked the sample. I think they're identical in shape and size. It even has the light spot in the middle. Maybe I'm crazy but I still haven't heard from Amazon, one way or the other.

Here is the sample Photo

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One shot in a million? Is this the Jim Gray Photo?