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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