Chapter 702: A Shocking Discovery
"Nick! Look what I found on Google Satellite Maps! "Richard Richard, a student at Caltechnic University who used a homemade image recognition application to test Google satellite images. Lyman slapped the table excitedly and said to his roommate, Nick. Oliveira shouted. “UFO! A real UFO! ”
The image recognition app he uses is his fellow housemate, Nick. Oliveira developed together, they try to find something special through this program on the recognition of Google satellite pictures, Google provides an extremely large number of satellite pictures every year, if you rely on people to identify images to find something special, I don't know how much manpower and material resources to read.
So Nick and Richard are going to develop an image recognition program to do this, through the application to locate the unusual parts of the satellite images, and then through people to identify these abnormal images to discover something, relying on this method, Nick and Richard found a lot of interesting things, such as whales in the sea, and even submarines in certain countries.
It's just that because the program is still very imperfect, and many of the places that indicate anomalies are useless things, Nick and Richard are constantly improving the algorithm and optimizing it to improve their ability to identify anomalies.
"Richard, are you telling the truth? You won't lie to me, will you? "Nick. Oliveira heard Richard. Lyman found something so shocking and hurried over. At the moment in Richard. On Lyman's computer screen, a satellite image zoomed in to 20 meters is being displayed, and in the center of the image, a saucer-shaped flying object is breaking through the waves of the blue sea. It was this thing that destroyed the gradient feature of the image of the sea and showed an abnormal state that allowed Richard to discover it.
"Oh my God!" Nick. Oliveira couldn't help but exclaim when he saw the fairly clear saucer-shaped flying object in front of him, this is a Google satellite map, not a blurry thing taken by someone's mobile phone, and it is still breaking the waves from the sea, so Nick and Richard are quickly convinced that this time is definitely not a fake gimmick, even if this thing is not an alien vehicle, it is also an extremely shocking new type of transportation.
In Nick and Richard's minds, there was absolutely nothing like it made public on Earth, and it was inadvertently captured by a Google satellite, which made this clear UFO photo even more precious.
"Richard, we're rich!" After confirming the authenticity of the news, Nick, who quickly woke up from the shock, had a twinkle in his eyes, and saw green dollars beckoning to him from this picture, which was absolutely exclusive to the explosive news picture, and Nick and Richard were able to make a lot of money with this clear UFO satellite photo.
For American college students with an extremely keen sense of business, they will not give up this opportunity to make a fortune. "Nick, what are we going to do to make enough money for our tuition from this picture?" Although Richard is the discoverer of this chapter of photos, he has no intention of monopolizing it, not only because the two developed the app together, but also because Richard knows that his talent for business is far inferior to that of Nick, a natural businessman who can earn enough money for tuition in college by peddling gadgets, how can business cells be simple.
"Tuition? Oh no, Richard, we're going to have to make at least $1 million from this picture. You see, we can sell the picture to the press first, this shocking exclusive news picture, no one wants to take it without 100,000 dollars, and then we can sell the specific location information of the picture, I believe that many people, even people in the U.S. military may be very interested, and we will also sell this information for at least 100,000 dollars.
But these are nothing, and then the two of us as discoverers, will definitely become popular immediately, we take this opportunity to tell the story of our discovery of this UFO on facebook and titter for hype, I believe that in this way, the software we developed will not be popular, I think we can completely name it UFOFINDER, package it and sell it globally, I think many people will be very interested.
Richard, if we price $49 a copy, do you say it's hard to sell 20,000 or 30,000 copies? And don't forget that there are millions of UFO enthusiasts in the world right now! We're really rich! Nick said with a frown.
For him, the discovery of a UFO is certainly something to be excited about, but what excites him even more is the huge business opportunity buried behind it. Nick doesn't even care if this UFO is real or not, he's not an astronomer, he's not a UFO enthusiast, he just cares if someone is interested in this thing. For Nick, making money is more important.
"Nick, you've got a lot of ideas!" After listening to Nick's series of plans, Richard praised him from the bottom of his heart, Nick was not as good as him in terms of developing applications, but in terms of business acumen, Richard asked himself if he was at least a few streets away. Such a thing was planned by Nick to sell a few times in an instant, thinking that he could sell it to newspapers or TV stations as news for tens of thousands of dollars, but Nick had to sell this thing several times, and each time it cost more than 100,000 dollars, this thing really made Nick half, Richard already felt that he had gone out of shit luck, and the first pot of gold for a family of 250,000 US dollars was an extremely exciting start.
But despite Nick's words, Richard still doesn't believe that things will really go as smoothly as Nick says until the money arrives. However, Richard underestimated the impact of a UFO satellite image on the press, Nick took this satellite image, just made three phone calls, sent out three small drawings that were narrowed to faint visibility, Nick was asked not to spread the news, CNN, ABC, NBC three news network hotline heads immediately instructed local reporters in California to go to Caltech, ready to talk to Nick about the matter.
After the next three reporters verified the authenticity of Nick's breaking news, CNN offered $150,000 to get the TV broadcast rights of the picture, and ABC won the opportunity to interview Nick and Richard for $100,000.
Because this time it is not a suspicious picture taken by those vague mobile phones or cameras at night, but a picture of a vehicle with a clear texture taken by a satellite that is moving from the water to the sky, which can completely rule out atmospheric phenomena or known flying objects on the earth, so it is very convincing in terms of authenticity and has become the strongest evidence of the existence of UFOs in decades, which makes Nick and Richard the objects of pursuit by UFO enthusiasts in one fell swoop.
A wealthy UFO enthusiast even offered $1 million to buy out Nick's accurate geographic information and the program they developed when they found the UFO. In other words, if you look at it purely from the point of view of making money, Nick and they don't need to do anything, and they can immediately get more than a million dollars from it!
However, this is not the end of the story, while the outside world is still talking about the truth of this incident and questioning the UFO discovered by Nick and Richard. The CIA Snyder came directly to the door and offered Nick $500,000 to buy out the UFO image geolocation information and app they found, and invited the two young students to join the CIA with an annual salary of $300,000 to continue to work on the development of satellite imagery analysis applications.
For the two students who have not yet graduated, this condition is even more favorable, and it immediately makes the two exciting high-wage collars. In the face of such favorable conditions, Nick and Richard couldn't sleep, on the one hand, they wanted to go further on this road, and on the other hand, the CIA's offer was a great temptation for them. After all, it is risky to start your own business, but entering the CIA is equivalent to finding an iron job bowl.
On the other side of the world, Duke also saw the pictures they found through the news, and he saw at a glance that this was Billem's car, and Billem showed his feet this time, which was the first time to take the robot developed by Duke to a nuclear desalination plant in North Africa to collect nuclear fuel in broad daylight.
So, when Duke saw the news, he felt as if the biggest secret in his heart had been discovered.
"Billem," Duke answered Billem at home alone that night, "I think you've discovered the interest of the earthlings in you, and the TV and the Internet are now full of pictures of your flying machine. Duke said to Bilem in his mind.
"Now there are many people who are frantically looking for your footprints, and on the government side, although no country has officially come out to confirm the news, I believe that at this moment, the sky over the North African region has been covered with all kinds of reconnaissance satellites waiting for you to appear again, and they are very eager to catch you. There is no doubt that now you have broken the peace on earth. ”
Over there, Billem was silent, through the network and the reception of the earth's satellite TV signals, he had long seen the earthlings' fanaticism for his appearance, even if ninety-nine percent of these people were just curious and had no bad intentions, but the remaining one percent was definitely a bud hiding evil intentions, Billem had absorbed too much information from the earth's network, and now fully understood the attitude of the earthlings towards a life with cutting-edge technology and intelligence from Duke one by one, Billem had seen the terrible reality that the governments of Earth were going to take him or destroy him.