If Osama Bin Laden Was A Panda, We Could Find Him With Satellites

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 16:21 in Physics & Chemistry

Thanks to advances in satellite technology, college students are giving government intelligence a run for its money.  A student geography project from UCLA made waves in the Harvard International review for using principles of wildlife diversity to narrow bin Laden’s likely location to a few promising structures in Pakistan.   Bin Laden has everything in common with a member of a species trying to escape extinction. This allowed the UCLA students used theories of wildlife dispersion to predict his whereabouts.  read more

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