+Cave Troll and Eeyore Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 We have made our house into a TB and dropped it into the cache in our front garden so that cache finders can log it as an added extra. The TB number is posted in the downstairs window. They just have to post a note and drop it back into the same cache. Has anyone else in the UK done something similar ? Quote Link to comment
+klaus23 Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 Not that I know of... cars, dogs, people maybe... not a house (to date). I can't see your house racking up the miles Quote Link to comment
+Stuey Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 I'm not sure how far you intend your TB to move, but i you can get it across the border, you can log this cache as well Quote Link to comment
+Cave Troll and Eeyore Posted June 19, 2005 Author Share Posted June 19, 2005 It's not about the miles It's the only way of making sure that at least one of our TBs doesn't go missing Quote Link to comment
+BedlingtonDuo Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 Dont be too sure!!! Quote Link to comment
+Tupperware Hunters Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 doo this mean that your house is now cachers property if so b&b for two night and full english pls Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 Kinda thought the idea of a "Travel Bug" was... er... to travel? Quote Link to comment
+-Phoenix- Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 (edited) Id guess that on average a TB would travel, maybe 20 miles per week, which is a mear 0.12Mph on average However if you assume a earth circumference at this latitude to be 14,800 Miles and give a 24 hour orbit, then a 'stationary' TB would in fact be travelling at about 617Mph simply through the speed of the earths axial rotation. Further given that the earth is approximately 93 million miles from the sun, which it orbits in 365.25 days, we can see that even this is quite insignifigant to the 66,660Mph that the earth is travelling around the sun Of course, lets not forget that the sun itself is part of a rotating spiral galaxy, being some 8 kiloparasecs away from the galactic core, which gives us it a rotational velocity of 495,000Mph (just trust me on this one) So, in short, a travelling TB is actually a hugely insignifigant thing, however, A truly stationary one would be something special indeed, however, unless you have the means of traveling at a mear half a million MPH then your chances of logging it would be quite slim, let alone the fact that you would be unlikely to get an acurate GPS signal when you get there! Edited June 20, 2005 by -Phoenix- Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Id guess that on average a TB would travel, maybe 20 miles per week, which is a mear 0.12Mph on average However if you assume a earth circumference at this latitude to be 14,800 Miles and give a 24 hour orbit, then a 'stationary' TB would in fact be travelling at about 617Mph simply through the speed of the earths axial rotation. Further given that the earth is approximately 93 million miles from the sun, which it orbits in 365.25 days, we can see that even this is quite insignifigant to the 66,660Mph that the earth is travelling around the sun Of course, lets not forget that the sun itself is part of a rotating spiral galaxy, being some 8 kiloparasecs away from the galactic core, which gives us it a rotational velocity of 495,000Mph (just trust me on this one) So, in short, a travelling TB is actually a hugely insignifigant thing, however, A truly stationary one would be something special indeed, however, unless you have the means of traveling at a mear half a million MPH then your chances of logging it would be quite slim, let alone the fact that you would be unlikely to get an acurate GPS signal when you get there! Quote Link to comment
+HazelS Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Id guess that on average a TB would travel, maybe 20 miles per week, which is a mear 0.12Mph on average However if you assume a earth circumference at this latitude to be 14,800 Miles and give a 24 hour orbit, then a 'stationary' TB would in fact be travelling at about 617Mph simply through the speed of the earths axial rotation. Further given that the earth is approximately 93 million miles from the sun, which it orbits in 365.25 days, we can see that even this is quite insignifigant to the 66,660Mph that the earth is travelling around the sun Of course, lets not forget that the sun itself is part of a rotating spiral galaxy, being some 8 kiloparasecs away from the galactic core, which gives us it a rotational velocity of 495,000Mph (just trust me on this one) So, in short, a travelling TB is actually a hugely insignifigant thing, however, A truly stationary one would be something special indeed, however, unless you have the means of traveling at a mear half a million MPH then your chances of logging it would be quite slim, let alone the fact that you would be unlikely to get an acurate GPS signal when you get there! Trust Phoenix.... If he travels that fast, perhaps that's why he gest all the FTFs!! Quote Link to comment
+Tupperware Hunters Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Id guess that on average a TB would travel, maybe 20 miles per week, which is a mear 0.12Mph on average However if you assume a earth circumference at this latitude to be 14,800 Miles and give a 24 hour orbit, then a 'stationary' TB would in fact be travelling at about 617Mph simply through the speed of the earths axial rotation. Further given that the earth is approximately 93 million miles from the sun, which it orbits in 365.25 days, we can see that even this is quite insignifigant to the 66,660Mph that the earth is travelling around the sun Of course, lets not forget that the sun itself is part of a rotating spiral galaxy, being some 8 kiloparasecs away from the galactic core, which gives us it a rotational velocity of 495,000Mph (just trust me on this one) So, in short, a travelling TB is actually a hugely insignifigant thing, however, A truly stationary one would be something special indeed, however, unless you have the means of traveling at a mear half a million MPH then your chances of logging it would be quite slim, let alone the fact that you would be unlikely to get an acurate GPS signal when you get there! shocked and stunned Quote Link to comment
SlytherinAlex Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Id guess that on average a TB would travel, maybe 20 miles per week, which is a mear 0.12Mph on average But while the travel bug is in a cache it is travelling at the same speed as the 'stationary' TB, so your theory is not correct. Quote Link to comment
SlytherinAlex Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 (edited) Hey.... weird. I posted the post above, but it shows as having been from Fruity. It was my sig line but fruity's avatar. TILT !!!! - Edited June 20, 2005 by SlytherinAlex Quote Link to comment
+-Phoenix- Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 I wouldnt say the physics is incorrect, I wasnt aware that CT&J... oops CT&E had put the TB in question in a cache. Quote Link to comment
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