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Topic: Building a Geocache Model of the Solar System, Need Your Extra Trinkets
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Rodina
Member Posts: 836
From: Lafayette, CA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 04-22-2009 11:39 AM
  
I've been doing a lot of geocaching of late (a sort of GPS treasure hunt thing), and we're in the process of setting up a 45.6M to 1 solar system model centered on Mt. Diablo in northern California. At that scale, the sun is 100' in diameter,the Earth is 11" in diameter and about 11,000 feet away. Jupiter 10' (and not quite 11 miles distant), Pluto at 2" in diameter and 80 miles distant.The idea with this, and any solar system model, is to give folks a sense of just how much black there is between here and there. Anyway, central to geocaching is finding pre-placed boxes of stuff -- a log to note that you were there -- as well as piles of cheap trinkets to trade. After you run down a cache -- using GPS coordinates you get from a site -- you have to do a little searching to find the cache itself. Folks sign the log, swap one thing for another, if they choose. Most of it is cheap toys and such. I'm seeding my caches with some surplus mission patches, duplicate post cards, that sort of thing. But I only have so much of that, to wit: I'm wondering if any of you might have some surplus space junk you might be willing to pass along to me to help fill my caches. I don't want anything you might in anyway miss or might have much of a value at all, really, just extra space-themed junk. None of this will ever be resold and it will all end up being placed for others to pick up. Geocaching is a very family-friendly activity, and mostly the ones who take trinkets are the kids (my four-year old has a bin filled to bursting with cheap magnifying glasses, compasses, green army men, foreign coins and the like), so this is a good way to pass along some stuff to a random kid. I am more than happy to pay shipping, of course, but I don't want anything you aren't perfectly happy to give away. If you'd like to pass some worthless space stuff along to a good cause, let me know. |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 04-22-2009 12:11 PM
Sir: I tried to email you but got this message: 5.1.2 - Bad destination host 'DNS Hard Error looking up attbi.com (A): domain has no A record'Send me your address and I'll put some space junk in the mail to you. Sounds like a good cause. Good luck!
Gary Milgrom
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Rodina
Member Posts: 836
From: Lafayette, CA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 04-22-2009 01:13 PM
Wow! That's an old address! I'll update my profile, and then ping you. |
Max Q
Member Posts: 399
From: Whyalla South Australia
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 04-23-2009 05:09 AM
Mate I alas have no space junk to share nor have I ever been Geo Caching but this is a top idea and if I ever find myself state side (Ahh the Dream) I will definitely take in your Solar System. | |
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