AZ article suggests geocaching threatens archaeological sites

[+whooven]

Just posted at AZ Central:

 

quote:

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High-tech scavenger hunt threatens archaeological sites

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Article Link

 

This is the one of the official websites of the Arizona Republic.

 

So are lots of people really defacing ruins, leaving garbage and generally destroying places like this? I'm suspicious the environmentalists are at it again, trying to keep normal people from being able to see special places and making stuff up to bring attention to their cause. But maybe I'm wrong. Read the article - doesn't it seem like they don't want anyone visiting these places? I can understand not wanting people to be able to walk around inside the ruins but are we only supposed to be aloud to see pictures in magazines?

 

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Bill

Jeeps Only!

http://www.jeepsonly.com

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[Jeremy]

There is an ongoing discussion in the General forum.

 

Jeremy Irish

Groundspeak - The Language of Location

[+whooven]

Whoops, should have checked there. I just figured it would be a regional discussion.

 

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Bill

Jeeps Only!

http://www.jeepsonly.com

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[Indemnifier]

Jar,

 

If photosynthesis rids the earth of water, we are in quite a predicament. Perhaps this is why bottled water is so expensive?!

 

Anyway, Photosynthesis is the process of constructive metabolism by which carbohydrates are formed from water vapor and the carbon dioxide of the air in the chlorophyll-containing tissues of plants exposed to the action of light.

 

(inhale)

 

The by product of photosynthesis is the oxygen we breathe. (sniffffffff ahhhhhhhhh).

 

Now, we know that only God can create something from nothing (ex nihlo), so where does all of the water come from?

 

Well, Jars, I'm glad you asked. The fact is there is no more or less water on the earth than when it was created. WHAT?! YES! ITS TRUE!

 

The Hydrologic Cycle (tecnically called the "water cycle") consists of a series of transfers of water involving the atmosphere, soils, plants, rocks, rivers, lakes, oceans and glacial ice. Water may occur as a liquid, solid (ice) or a gas (water vapor). Water drops are made up of thousands of water molecules, two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen, (H2O). An individual water molecule may move rapidly through the hydrologic system in the space of a few days or may be in storage (for example as ice or ground water) for hundreds of years.

 

In short, our friend is correct in saying the air we breathe is the same air that has been around for quite some time (it may consist of Hamster's recycled farts, but hey!) and the water we enjoy while geocaching is a recycled version of itself.

 

Did you guys here about that guy in Yugoslavia?

[+Wolfb8]

do to the press that arizona has recieved today I have decided to make a good many of my caches menbers only. I have done this because I really do not want to deal with them comming up missing this week end with all the new cacher I have a feeling we are going to have. So if your not a menber and have planned on doing some of my caches don't delete those waypoints that you have. If you are a menber don't worry about it...

 

wolfb8