Kybra

Your wife is a tupperware lady and has won a car for products sold without ever having a tupperware party. Your grab bag of trade items is bigger than the luggage you took on your last overseas holiday. You can change batteries in you GPSr while driving at night. mud map directions to your house reference caches... and not street names

or is it a default setting?

a simular question came up about a year ago and I remember someone linking to a cache at the bottom of an oceanic trench

I don't like this idea, there is only 10 caches within 300km of my location two of which are mine, with this idea it would take some serious travelly for me to get a chance to start putting any in and then there would be no caches in the area for visitors to find.

It's a bit rough when even the forces of nature want to leave the country Actually thats a bit mean, I quite like Canada

Yeah, but think about how long it would take to write all those "Sorry, this is not the cache, keep looking" slips! That is just plain evil!!!

would there be anyone left in Florida if you did that?

I've seen the way some people hunt over there... I wouldn't go looking for a cache in a place where it's a designated hunting ground with anything less than a Leopard tank equiped with a remote controlled grab claw.

Maybe you're unwitingly dousing great cache sites, you've become so intune with the sport that you have risen to a higher plane, The GPSr has become a symbol of a petty false god in your quintisentual existance

Actually GPS uses trilateration (distances) not triangulation (angles) Thanks for that, trilateration is the word I actually meant... it was very early in the morning when I wrote that. But basically it still supports the message I was trying to get across.

My FJ40 Toyota Landcruiser Troopcarrier is fitted with a GPS guidance system from a 100 series Landcruiser... Does that count as the largest GPSr

My thoughts are if you are in a plane the higher you go the more satelites will come into view as you horizon is getting further below you so the area of view is less restricted by the earth (this is hard to explain without diagrams) thus potentually exposing the unit to more satelite signals, not like celestial nav where in an aircraft you need to work with an artifical horizon. So in theory you will be given a postion fix in relation to a point on earth seeing as the GPS will be set to an earth based datum, not so good if you are trying to fix a position on the Moon. Another thing the position given in relation to sea level is a predetirmined datum as well, because the Earth bulges in the middle sea levels are different around the world, even the two entrances to the Panama Canal are at different levels, the problem of height above sea level in this instance comes from trying to apply spherical geometry the an object that isn't a perfect sphere. Triangleation works well for most GPS fixes but the minute angle differences between the GPS unit and the transmitting satelite that we concider acceptable to give us a GPS fix within a few meters transfered to height above sea level as well can make the fix seem alarmingly inaccurate.

I'm paying the equilevent of $5.46US a gallon in country Western Australia ($1.14AUS a ltr) and there are areas where it is more expensive in this state, it hasn't been under $1.00 a ltr for 4 years

was an eagle scout until rodeo took over my life, then moved back to Australia after horror dust up. now a CO of a Navy Cadet Unit

I tried years ago and had such poor results that I sent what was left to the scrap pile. There is a lot of surface area to develop oxides and the brass is has not been alloyed for casting. But give it a try, you have nothing to lose. MC Thanks for that, I had a slightly alterior motive for asking this, as a CO of a cadet unit it would be cool if we could make our shoot trophies from the big pile of shells we have left over. So even if the castings have flaws in them due to the oxidation this would only add to the uniqueness rather than the mass produced plastic figurines.

I think you are being way too generous in your estimations of the size of the guidelines, time and ease of approvals. Surely only the first volume of 24 would be 500 pages and the forms for approval would have to be in triplicate, signed by a JP, filed, lost, found, relodged, lost again, counter signed, delivered to a department that operates in a different time zone and finally filed in a room in a nondiscript building behind a door with the only identifying feature is a sign saying 'Beware of the Tiger" Actualy this sounds like a cool cache!

I have a heap of old brass shell casings, would they be a viable source of metal for casting?

I'd rather have the snake than the cat

"United Nations Office For the Utilisation of Geostationary Satellite Transmitters for the Procurement and Processing of Low Value Commodities Within Urban and Rural Environs in Association with the Office of Recreational Lifestyle Promotions." has a certain ring to it, not a very tuneful ring but a ring none the less.

Yes the tree is real. Yes feral cats have adversly affected the native marsupials of Australia wiping out many species and allowing the natural balance it tip to the side of introduced vermin like rabbits and rats which has decimated the delicate flora enviroment. If you ever get a chance to see the rabbit proof fence there is a marked differance in the quality and variety of the plant species from one side to the other. This tree isn't really any different to the fence line covered in rattle snake skins, that is more of a crime against nature as the rattle snakes are an important part of the ecology in that area not introduced vermin.

the problem I can see with this is I know that there is 9 other people that bank with the same bank I do that have the exact same name as me, 2 of which share the same birth date and one was born on the same day I was. If this can happen in a relatively small bank company, there is a strong possibility of it happening in a global interest group.

I must be one of the most isolated Cachers, I only have eight Geocaches within 100 miles of me, two of them are mine. There is one other Geocacher near here, Team VWoffroader, I think they are about 50 miles away.

You ain't the only one thats stumped on getting a pic in here. What spins me out is all the tall trees in the pics, there isn't many tall trees around here and they curtainly aren't that green, you could say I'm 'pining' for some nice forested areas again.

God willin' an' the creeks don't rise... we'll see ya all next time

35'C and a light sea breeze this afternoon... been out fishing all day