Confirmed Suspicion

[+rusty_tlc]

I recently went caching with an actual rocket scientist (astronautical engineer). They confirmed that geocaching really isn't rocket science.

 

So if it isn't rocket science what exactly is it?

[+briansnat]

I've never gone geocaching with a brain surgeon, but I can bet its not brain surgery either.

[+The Leprechauns]

It is rocket surgery.

[+rusty_tlc]

I've never gone geocaching with a brain surgeon, but I can bet its not brain surgery either.

I'm putting that on my list:

"# 2345 - Geocache with brain surgeon"

 

Edit: missed an e.

Edited June 24, 2004 by rusty_tlc

[BassoonPilot]

So if it isn't rocket science what exactly is it?

 

It's a game, made possible through developments made by the defense industries of the United States of America.

Edited June 24, 2004 by BassoonPilot

[+JoGPS]

I hunt with a Gynecologist at least once every two week does that make it a $#^&)^ …….JOE

[+bigredmed]

I hunt with a Gynecologist at least once every two week does that make it a $#^&)^ …….JOE

No, but it might qualify as an #*@*^@&.

[Prof. Y. Lupardi]

It is always the same: science and technology.

Two words and two different things.

Science uses technology to get answers to questions.

Technology developes because of scientific research.

A technician is not the same as a scientologist. (oeps! :-)

[+clearpath]

I should go caching with a chiropractor because sometimes it is a pain.

[+harleycache]

What is it then if you go with a proctologist?

 

Wait! I know!

[+rusty_tlc]

What is it then if you go with a proctologist?

 

Wait! I know!

[Pto]

It is always the same: science and technology.

Two words and two different things.

 

Kinda like being "smart" - Professors who cant operate a VCR, etc-

street smarts vs educated brains . . . sometimes known as common sense.

 

Ive cached with a heavy equiptment mechanic, a service dept mgr for an autodealer,

an airplane mechanic and an accountant to name a few. (all new to caching, on thier first hunt)

 

The accountant understood the trail by error/look everywhere method of searching, wasnt too angered by bouce, directionless pointers, etc. He worked tiredlessly until we made the find. Completed all logs, rehid as well or better - left the woods and called it a good days work. Regardless of it being an hour and a half of wandering on the wrong side of a river, deep, wet snow, etc.

 

The blue collar guys - to them, our job was to find the cache we set out for. Plan, go to the park then execute that plan. They got angry with bad reception, coords, etc.

they were mad the gps'r didnt take us right to the cache, first shot. (They want thier tool to do the job its made to do, 100% of the time) Operator error was Never a possibility! And when the Garmin wanted to show them 50ftNorth. . . then 75ft south(without them moving) it just about went in the lake!

 

Funny how people are, and how alot of us all view the same thing from our own little perch.

Edited June 24, 2004 by Pto

[+rusty_tlc]

So the way this is developing I could say that if I went night caching with a marksman it would be a "Shot in the dark".

[+PandyBat]

Where's a moderator when you need one?

[+Webfoot]

Where's a moderator when you need one?

Didn't you hear? They all took the day off and went caching.

[UK_Explorer]

in my (admittedly limited) experience, it's rarely a walk in the park either....

[+PandyBat]

Where's a moderator when you need one?     

Didn't you hear? They all took the day off and went caching.

Wish I could be!

[WH]

Where's a moderator when you need one?     

Didn't you hear? They all took the day off and went caching.

It seems that they have been reading my signature line.

[+The Jester]

Well, it ain't magic either.

[+macatac1961]

Well it isn't a sport, because then it would be all about the numbers.

[+Robespierre]

I recently went caching with an actual rocket scientist (astronautical engineer). They confirmed that geocaching really isn't rocket science.

 

So if it isn't rocket science what exactly is it?

It isn't men badly in need of exercise (well, maybe it is) watching men badly in need of rest, sweating all over the field."

[+Webfoot]

Well it isn't a sport, because then it would be all about the numbers.

You mean it's not???

[Cholo]

 

(They want thier tool to do the job its made to do, 100% of the time)

Mine does.

[Colonel Mustard]

Geocaching is an activity that makes you drive to places you wouldn't have gone to in a previuos life, drag a bag of junk along with a $150.00 magic electronic battery sucker and a $100.00 hiking pole that you wouldn't have bought in a previous life, hike across streams with slippery rocks that you'd have never tried to cross in a previous life, pick through briars and snake infested rock piles that you'd have never thought of entering in a previous life, to find a box full of mostly junk that you'd have thrown out in a previous life. So............... Geocaching must be Reincarnation. It can't be rocket science because all that's involved in Rocket Science is keeing the pointy end up and the end with the fire in it pointed down...................untill the fire goes out.

[+Cache Viking]

 

(They want thier tool to do the job its made to do, 100% of the time)

Mine does.

[+Team GPSaxophone]

It can't be rocket science because all that's involved in Rocket Science is keeing the pointy end up and the end with the fire in it pointed down...................untill the fire goes out.

Sounds like you were on the toilet for awhile. Did you have chiles for lunch?

[+Pyewacket]

in my (admittedly limited) experience, it's rarely a walk in the park either.... 

It's never a walk in the park. It's a stroll.

 

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[Colonel Mustard]

It can't be rocket science because all that's involved in Rocket Science is keeing the pointy end up and the end with the fire in it pointed down...................untill the fire goes out.

Sounds like you were on the toilet for awhile. Did you have chiles for lunch?

Would that make me a "rocket scientist"?

[+joefrog]

Would that make me a "rocket scientist"?

Nah, but it'd definately teach you which end had the fire in it!

Edited June 25, 2004 by joefrog

[Colonel Mustard]

Been there..............done that

[+AtoZ]

Geocaching is just a nother fun activeity brought to you by DOD just like the Internet. Who ever said your tax dollars are wasted. Just your time surfing the net.

cheers

[+Team DEMP]

I have a neighbor that was a rocket scientist. She can't make brownies without burning them. My guess is that in certain areas, being a rocket scientist is no more advantageous then being an average Joe.

[mortonfox]

Now that it's been brought up, you just know that someone's going to set up a puzzle cache requiring knowledge of rocket science or brain surgery.

[+Metaphor]

What about this one, huh?

[Zoptrop]

Nah, but it'd definately teach you which end had the fire in it!

 

Reminds me of a local Tex-Mex restaurant's slogan:

 

"The burn that's famous from here to Uranus."

 

 

www.chuys.com

[+LETaylor]

As one who's actually "hung hardware" on a GPS satellite, I beg to differ. . It is rocket science.

 

On one of the contracts I used to manage we developed a secondary payload that was attached to GPS satellites for a secondary mission.