+bittsen Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 If that spreadsheet is correct then it's counting disabled caches as active caches so the 1,000,000th active cache has not been published yet. Quote Link to comment
+NeecesandNephews Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 If that spreadsheet is correct then it's counting disabled caches as active caches so the 1,000,000th active cache has not been published yet. Ty bittsen... where you been?? I have been trying not to respond to that most of the afternoon as I was waiting for the return of the "Official Count Tracker " to give the update! Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Well, apparently my guess of March 7 missed the mark by at least a couple of days. I was counting on a big weekend push, but I guess I underestimated that. Quote Link to comment
+beejay&esskay Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Well, apparently my guess of March 7 missed the mark by at least a couple of days. I was counting on a big weekend push, but I guess I underestimated that. Your guess of March 7th was exactly correct. Quote Link to comment
+NeecesandNephews Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Well, apparently my guess of March 7 missed the mark by at least a couple of days. I was counting on a big weekend push, but I guess I underestimated that. Your guess of March 7th was exactly correct. You might want to note bittsens post a few above this one. I agree, the page linked has two disabled caches on it. This thread is about the 1 Millionth active cache. Not the "situation" you describe. Quote Link to comment
+beejay&esskay Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Well, apparently my guess of March 7 missed the mark by at least a couple of days. I was counting on a big weekend push, but I guess I underestimated that. Your guess of March 7th was exactly correct. You might want to note bittsens post a few above this one. I agree, the page linked has two disabled caches on it. This thread is about the 1 Millionth active cache. Not the "situation" you describe. The count displayed every day that is labeled "active geocaches around the world" includes those same temporarily disabled caches. All we can measure is what we can measure. Quote Link to comment
+bittsen Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Well, apparently my guess of March 7 missed the mark by at least a couple of days. I was counting on a big weekend push, but I guess I underestimated that. Your guess of March 7th was exactly correct. You might want to note bittsens post a few above this one. I agree, the page linked has two disabled caches on it. This thread is about the 1 Millionth active cache. Not the "situation" you describe. The count displayed every day that is labeled "active geocaches around the world" includes those same temporarily disabled caches. All we can measure is what we can measure. WOW, that means we aren't even close to the ONE MILLIONth active geocache yet. Now I'm sad.... and my latest cache is all but meaningless. Quote Link to comment
+beejay&esskay Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 (edited) We're just watching the odometer roll over. You can't do much about the fact that the changed wheel size means you didn't REALLY just drive 1,000,000 miles. That same count contains events that haven't happened, caches long gone that nobody has archived yet and caches some people don't even think have been placed. What are you going to do? Edited March 8, 2010 by beejay&esskay Quote Link to comment
+NeecesandNephews Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 We're just watching the odometer roll over. You can't do much about the fact that the changed wheel size means you didn't REALLY just drive 1,000,000 miles. That same count contains events that haven't happened, caches long gone that nobody has archived yet and caches some people don't even think have been placed. What are you going to do? Hahaha!! True that! I guess there is no way to actually know. Not that it was a big deal, just interesting to me. I wasn't planning a party or anything!! And i don't have a cache listing in play so... Quote Link to comment
4wheelin_fool Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 January 2008 501,000 active caches January 2007 346,000 January 2006 223,000 Febuary 2005 143,000 From 2006 - 2008 the number doubled from a quarter million to a half million. From Jan 2008 to now it doubled again. Based on that increase, by mid 2012 there will a projected 2,000,000 Quote Link to comment
+DENelson83 Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Congratulations, Groundspeak. You now have a million caches for us to play with. Quote Link to comment
+bittsen Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Congratulations, Groundspeak. You now have a million caches for us to play with. Give or take. A quick glance of my area shows a little more than 1% "temporarily" disabled caches that Groundspeak counts towards the "active cache" number. If the number is an actual 1% worldwide then they still have about 9,000 to go. Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 ...Based on that increase, by mid 2012 there will a projected 2,000,000 That will all go missing when the world ends. Quote Link to comment
+Nuttyguy Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 There are 1,001,001 active geocaches around the world. Yeah, like that's not a made up number. Oh, and whoohoo for a million! Quote Link to comment
+beejay&esskay Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 January 2008501,000 active caches January 2007 346,000 January 2006 223,000 Febuary 2005 143,000 From 2006 - 2008 the number doubled from a quarter million to a half million. From Jan 2008 to now it doubled again. Based on that increase, by mid 2012 there will a projected 2,000,000 If you expect to claim the prize for predicting when the "odometer" rolls to 2,000,000, you need to give us an exact day. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Well, apparently my guess of March 7 missed the mark by at least a couple of days. I was counting on a big weekend push, but I guess I underestimated that. Your guess of March 7th was exactly correct. (sigh... ...) and I didn't get as much as an email notification. That's the last time I'll play that game! Quote Link to comment
+Original A1 Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 Wow - first time I've been on this forum for AGES and I'm gobsmacked to see one of my very few threads is still on the go, AND that we've hit 7 figures. I wish I'd known a couple of days ago as 4 new ones of mine were published on Saturday. Hey ho - well done everyone who's contributed to getting it up to the magical number. Happy caching, folks! Quote Link to comment
+Original A1 Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 No real money to change hands of course, and apologies if someone's already mentioned it, but I'll start the ball rolling: 1st April 2010 P.S. Three weeks out from last August ain't too bad! Quote Link to comment
+Matt_B_Good Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Forgive me if this is posted already. I didn't see anything, a similar thread but not exactly the same. Today I see we hit 1,000,000 active caches. it was quite a jump from the last report I saw. With an early spring this year it looks like some activity is going on. new caches being placed, caches deactivated for the winter are being activated. things are really starting to pick up. the jump is large enough that it is unlikely that the number will drop under. 1,000,000. I might be tooting my own horn a little bit with this statement but. Congrats to all us cache owners for helping out. Now if we can just get people to stop placing so many bison tubes and nanos with no room to leave a trackable that would be great. I don't mind them as a stage in a multi but as the final it gets kind of boring. I like seeing what stuff is left behind and it is nice to find the occasional recently placed or unlisted geocoin or travel bug in there some of which fit into something as small as a match holder or film canister. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Now if we can just get people to stop placing so many bison tubes and nanos with no room to leave a trackable that would be great. I don't mind them as a stage in a multi but as the final it gets kind of boring. I like seeing what stuff is left behind and it is nice to find the occasional recently placed or unlisted geocoin or travel bug in there some of which fit into something as small as a match holder or film canister. The overall increase in the number of active caches would seem to indicate an increase also in the number of active caches that can accomodate a geocoin or travel bug. Probably very little need for travel bug angst. Quote Link to comment
+HawkLawless1 Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Could've sworn when I logged on yesterday it was under...but this morning it was 1,001,001. What a jump! Kudos to all the COs out there! Greatly appreciate the time and effort put forth, especially those puzzle caches! Quote Link to comment
pizza_guy Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Great! Then I'll claim the 1,000,000th cache. Let's call GC24NAC the official millionth cache. Actually, I'm sure that Groundspeak recognizes the public relations implications of being able to advertise a millionth cache. At a minimum they could pick a cache at random from the 2000 which were approved yesterday and tell everyone that said cache was selected to officially represent the millionth geocache. PN I'm guessing "no". They run a program daily to get the current value...so we will know what day it is. Quote Link to comment
+ladabohac Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Too late now, but tHis would have been able to help figure it out. I guess the question now will be when do we get to a point where the number starts to go down. 1 000 000 -> LOOK HERE: http://bit.ly/9PIA1p Well I didn't know you could do that. That would have settled a lot of arguments. At 1,000,030 now. 7th March 2010 - 18:40 Quote Link to comment
+Winstonsdad Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 1001001. I think it is a binary puzzle. now how do we solve it? Quote Link to comment
+Bergie Bunch Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Yes, yesterday we were about 4000 away in the morning when I logged in, must have been a busy busy day publishing caches. Do we know the official 1,000,000th? Quote Link to comment
+infiniteMPG Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 One million is an arbitrary milestone derived from our Base 10 number system. There's no logical reason why # 1,000,000 is any more special than # 999,123 or # 1,000,505.Does this mean that "1" is no more special then "2"...? I'll try that with the next person to get a STF, comforting them saying it's just an arbitrary number and no less special then a FTF.... Quote Link to comment
+t4e Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 (edited) that power trail in Las Vegas of 500+ caches must have contributed Edited March 8, 2010 by t4e Quote Link to comment
+Casting Crowns Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 that power trail in Las Vegas of 500+ caches must have contributed That's what I was thinking! Quote Link to comment
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 that power trail in Las Vegas of 500+ caches must have contributed Is there a new powertrail in Las Vegas?? I saw one in California too. Quote Link to comment
+atmospherium Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 This was a bit anticlimactic, wasn't it? I thought I'd at least get the day off from work. And I haven't even been able to go out and find a few of those million caches to mark the occasion, as I'm limping around on a lame foot. Quote Link to comment
+addisonbr Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Is there a new powertrail in Las Vegas?? I saw one in California too. It's in California, but less than an hour outside of Vegas. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Congratulations, Groundspeak. You now have a million caches for us to play with. Give or take. A quick glance of my area shows a little more than 1% "temporarily" disabled caches that Groundspeak counts towards the "active cache" number. If the number is an actual 1% worldwide then they still have about 9,000 to go. How were you able to determine that temp disabled caches don't count toward that number? Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 There are 1,001,001 active geocaches around the world. Yeah, like that's not a made up number. Oh, and whoohoo for a million! It's not code: Or is it: "The Body Electric" One humanoid escapee One android on the run Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun Trying to change its program Trying to change the mode...crack the code Images conflicting into data overload [Chorus:] 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 SOS 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 In distress 1 0 0 1 0 0 Memory banks unloading Bytes break into bits Unit One's in trouble and it's scared out of its wits Guidance systems break down A struggle to exist To resist A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist [Chorus] It replays each of the days A hundred years of routines Bows its head and prays To the mother of all machines Quote Link to comment
+Castle Mischief Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 (edited) Or is it: "The Body Electric" This was actually the first thing that went through my mind when I saw 1001001. What is the significance of 1001001 in "The Body Electric?" In the video, the protagonist is a prisoner attempting to escape from some sort of prison. The number on his uniform is 1001001. Many people have converted this number into decimal and noticed that ASCII 73 is a capital I and read significance into that, but I've never seen anything "official" on the subject. My opinion is that 1001001 was used because it fits and sounds neat. From: http://www.nimitz.net/rush/faq3ans.html Edited March 8, 2010 by Castle Mischief Quote Link to comment
+Matt_B_Good Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Yes, yesterday we were about 4000 away in the morning when I logged in, must have been a busy busy day publishing caches. Do we know the official 1,000,000th? Even if we could find out there is no real way to know which one set it over the top. We might be able to figure out What cache was the 1,000,000 to be published but with all the caches that are deactivated and archived no one is really the one millionth cache. Quote Link to comment
+bittsen Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Congratulations, Groundspeak. You now have a million caches for us to play with. Give or take. A quick glance of my area shows a little more than 1% "temporarily" disabled caches that Groundspeak counts towards the "active cache" number. If the number is an actual 1% worldwide then they still have about 9,000 to go. How were you able to determine that temp disabled caches don't count toward that number? I used my brain, of course. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Congratulations, Groundspeak. You now have a million caches for us to play with. Give or take. A quick glance of my area shows a little more than 1% "temporarily" disabled caches that Groundspeak counts towards the "active cache" number. If the number is an actual 1% worldwide then they still have about 9,000 to go. How were you able to determine that temp disabled caches don't count toward that number? I used my brain, of course. May I assume that even your brain doesn't know how the query is worded? Quote Link to comment
+bittsen Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 May I assume that even your brain doesn't know how the query is worded? You may assume whatever you want. If you want to assume that the millionth active cache is located in an alternate reality, you are free to do so. If you want to know what data I used to come to my conclusion, well that's a different topic. All you need to do is look at the list of all active caches, note which page that last (newest) cache appears on, then do a little math to find the number of "active" caches and then look at the list to see if it includes temporarily disabled caches. It's so easy a caveman could do it. Quote Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 (edited) May I assume that even your brain doesn't know how the query is worded? Don't ask, or next thing we know there'll be another Wikipedia entry vandalized. Edited March 8, 2010 by Chrysalides Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 If you want to know what data I used to come to my conclusion, well that's a different topic. You mean, something like this?How were you able to determine that temp disabled caches don't count toward that number? Quote Link to comment
+MlKE Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 (edited) 1001001 is binary for 73 which = 7th day of the third month, Edited March 8, 2010 by MlKE Quote Link to comment
+Malcore Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 1001001 is binary for 73 which = 7th day of the third month, 1001001 is also a palindrome... Quote Link to comment
+DragonsWest Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 This reminds me of my early days when McDonalds signs posted a count of customers served, which periodically was updated on the signs. 25,000,000 served. 43,000,000 served. 108,000,00 served. etc. Now the signs all say Billions Served (if they say anything at all.) Quote Link to comment
+Knight2000 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I'm thinking that the M cache will be here soon. Quote Link to comment
+karen rinora Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I have been reading over the past 4 pages of banter, and all I want to know is, WHERE IS IT?? (the millionth, or what we believe to be the millionth). Does anyone have any idea? Or a rough idea????? Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 1001001 is binary for 73 which = 7th day of the third month, 1001001 is also a palindrome... Well, satan oscillate my metallic sonatas, IT IS! Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I have been reading over the past 4 pages of banter, and all I want to know is, WHERE IS IT?? (the millionth, or what we believe to be the millionth). Does anyone have any idea? Or a rough idea????? As near as I can tell, somewhere in Southern Ontario. Near a little town named Simcoe. I've never heard of it before. OK... sorry... just kidding . Really, I don't believe there is any way of knowing. Since the count is for active caches, and caches are getting archived all the time, using the GC# doesn't do any good. Its really anybody's guess. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 1001001 is binary for 73 which = 7th day of the third month, 1001001 is also a palindrome... Well, satan oscillate my metallic sonatas, IT IS! Hey... it's also the same number backwards and forwards!!! Boy golly!! Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 This was actually the first thing that went through my mind when I saw 1001001. Yep. That was the first thing I thought of too. RUSH was the band of choice for the cool nerds in High School. I went to sleep listening to RUSH every night for many years. It still saddens me when I hear RUSH played in an elevator. It happens from time to time. It makes me feel... old. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 This was actually the first thing that went through my mind when I saw 1001001. Yep. That was the first thing I thought of too. RUSH was the band of choice for the cool nerds in High School. I went to sleep listening to RUSH every night for many years. It still saddens me when I hear RUSH played in an elevator. It happens from time to time. It makes me feel... old. Dude... try the Beatles! I was an old dude when I first heard of Rush. Quote Link to comment
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