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y exciting to find something that was historically tucked away,'' he told Reuters. ``The question is, though, will the contents have survived?''

 

Museum archaeologists were currently cleaning the outside of the box in order to read an inscription on the casing, and would take X-rays before attempting to open it, he said.

 

The container was found as work began on the belated erection of a 120-meter (394 feet) stainless steel spike -- intended to mark the new millennium but delayed after concerns about its environmental impact.

 

The original monument on the site, Nelson's Pillar, was erected in 1808 but blown up by the Irish Republican Army (news - web sites) (IRA) in 1966.

 

Wallace said the box was probably intended to remain buried for 1,000 years.

 

``The idea has always been there, with historical buildings, to put something away for the future, but how could these people have known the statue would be blown up?''

 

Note: Isn't it obvious that this is a geocache? Sure, there were no GPS satellites at the time, but perhaps they used sextants and pocketwatches.

 

I'm sure when they finish cleaning off the box they will see the inscription reads, "geocaching.com." icon_smile.gif

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Redd...

 

Thanks for bringing this to our attention...I'll look forward to following this thread as it hopefully unfolds.

 

As to your last line it will surely prove that H.G. Wells used his own invention to move forward and back.

 

 

[This message has been edited by Ron Streeter (edited 05 October 2001).]

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quote:
Originally posted by navdog:

 

I knew Jeremy had placed a TIME TRAVELING TRAVEL BUG!

 

A new sport is born: chronocaching.

 

Newer models of GPS receivers will have settings not only for latitude, longitude, but also date. icon_smile.gif

 

 

[This message has been edited by redd (edited 05 October 2001).]

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Blast! The time was set for 2801. Must have been a parallel time shift. I'll have to chronomail IlluvianSeknetG@sector5.geocaching.com and let him know not to hypersnorp there.

 

Jeremy

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Blast! The time was set for 2801. Must have been a parallel time shift. I'll have to chronomail IlluvianSeknetG@sector5.geocaching.com and let him know not to hypersnorp there.

 

Jeremy

 

icon_biggrin.gif LOL icon_biggrin.gif

 

"Hypersnorping" must be a future geocaching technique?

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I will saw one once with a panafranoptic stabilizer. It will allowed the user to quintagulate from multiple vectors using crosstransmogrified frequencies. This is particularly useful in hypersnorping your chronocache.

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I'm still pondering whether I should purchase the Garmin MMLXXX or the Microsoft Magellan Millenium Edition With Noseduct PC installed. With Microsoft Magellan I tend to drool whenever it crashes. The Garmin Linux5 OS is much more stable but there is a certain lack of holiscoping programs for material transfer. It's all so vexing.

 

Jeremy

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Hey - chronocaching... No more waiting for new cachers in the area for me to find one. I just zap one back in time to myself. I could be assured of having cools stuff that I would like in it, as well as certainty of being able to transverse the terrain icon_wink.gif

 

Now all I need is a septahedronic synaptic interface for my transchronometric multidirectional USB. Narf.

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ZORK!! ZXORK!!

 

iban thimk zat chrono(())CACHE)))ingggg is the best event plan of our zentry. Utilizng the snorphyper equazion, now that ESSAY has been defrintibulated, nu CACHEZ will b appring in YOR zentry--

 

zoon very zoon

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well

could someone either go back in time and convince garmin that this new technology called software needs to be low priced and accurate

or go forward and bring back a acceptable version

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quote:
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could someone either go back in time and convince garmin that this new technology called software needs to be low priced and accurate

or go forward and bring back a acceptable version

 

Hey, that's odd. This future version of Maps and Streets shows there's a superhighway running right through my house.

 

Huh? What's the noise?

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aww cmon redd

superhighway? omaha?

thats way into the future

 

Actually, take a look at a map. Interstate 80, The Great American East/West Drug Corridor, runs right through Omaha. icon_smile.gif In fact, I live only several hundred feet away from I-80.

 

Scott

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This story has an update from http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011029/od/capsule_dc_1.html

 

Looks like it was plundered. icon_frown.gif

 

'Time Capsule' Yields Disappointing Result

DUBLIN (Reuters)

 

A stone and metal box dug up by workmen at a site in Dublin earlier this month and believed by archaeologists to be a ``time capsule'' has been opened to reveal ... nothing.

 

``It's very disappointing,'' Pat Wallace, director of Ireland's National Museum, said on Friday. ``Right up to the end I would have bet there was something there.''

 

Experts had hoped the sealed container, found at a central Dublin site where a monument to English naval hero Horatio Nelson once stood, would contain artifacts such as coins and newspapers.

 

But after three weeks of painstaking work microscopically flaking away sealant around an inscribed plaque on top of the granite box, museum experts found an empty recess.

 

``It's intriguing. Reports from the time state clearly a number of coins were inside the stone,'' Wallace said.

 

``Were they stolen? Were they never put in? It's another mystery.''

 

The plaque sealing the box -- believed to be the foundation stone for the pillar on which Nelson once stood -- bore a long eulogy to the ``transcendent and heroic'' deeds of Nelson, who died in the Battle of Trafalgar.

 

The container was found as work began on the belated erection of a 394-foot stainless steel spike intended to mark the new millennium but delayed after concerns about its environmental impact.

 

The original monument on the site, Nelson's Pillar, was built in 1808 but blown up by the Irish Republican Army (news - web sites) in 1966.

 

The museum plans to put the box -- measuring around 2.5 feet by 1.5 feet -- on public display.

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A stone and metal box dug up by workmen at a site in Dublin earlier this month and believed by archaeologists to be a ``time capsule'' has been opened to reveal ... nothing.

 

That's too bad. I was hoping to see what the 1808 version of a Happy Meal Toy was.

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rst, local newspaper reports from that date indicate the sound "like a hundred thousand people saying 'whop,"... next time maybe you should put the Somebody Else's Problem field around it icon_smile.gif

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But don't forget. Tread lightly or even leave a trail. You never know, you might have giant newt or whale yell at you for killing it. Or even find yourself in a Cathedral of Hate.

 

[This message has been edited by OblongFred (edited 06 November 2001).]

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Here in the year 2808, you can now go to the nearest Clock store to buy a couple hours of time, so that you can hit some more geocaches.

 

Also the Garmin 5805 2way GPS is now available. Now you can change the Latitude and Longitude and altitude on the 2way GPS, to teleport you there. Now you can do 100 geocaches in one day. Just dont input a wrong altitude number, or you may end up 6 feet under.

 

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My GPS Information Page:

http://members.aol.com/geoffr524/myhomepage/howto.html

This page has many links about GPS information for the beginner.

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I'm still pondering whether I should purchase the Garmin MMLXXX or the Microsoft Magellan Millenium Edition With Noseduct PC installed. With Microsoft Magellan I tend to drool whenever it crashes. The Garmin Linux5 OS is much more stable but there is a certain lack of holiscoping programs for material transfer. It's all so vexing.<BR><BR>Jeremy

 

The Garmin MMLXXX with the Noseduct PC is no good. I suggest the Garmin Oregon 550T 3-Inch Handheld GPS Navigator with 3.2MP Digital Camera and U.S. Topographic Maps preloaded.

 

It won't be available for about 8 years however.. :blink:

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Here in the year 2808, you can now go to the nearest Clock store to buy a couple hours of time, so that you can hit some more geocaches.

 

Also the Garmin 5805 2way GPS is now available. Now you can change the Latitude and Longitude and altitude on the 2way GPS, to teleport you there. Now you can do 100 geocaches in one day. Just dont input a wrong altitude number, or you may end up 6 feet under.

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Here in 2009 you don't need a 26 hour day or a tele-porter to get 100 caches... just a good concentration of LPC's :rolleyes:

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