GC55VHX Traditional Cache Mad For Science: Hello Out There
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 2.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 2.5 out of 5
By: Triggur @ | Hide Date: 05/28/2014 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 44.996 W105° 32.987 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Scenic view  Camping available  Medium hike (1km-10km) 

You're looking for a small, well-camo'd, water tight container containing a log, a handful of foreign coins, and one of the copper vacuum seal rings from my fusion reactor.

If you find that your sunny day coordinates are different from my cloudy day coordinates, please do let me know and I'll update them!

Please restore the camo when done.


"Hello from the children of planet Earth."

In 1977, we launched two probes into the solar system to relay back pictures of the outer planets.

Astronomer Carl Sagan led the effort to produce a golden record stored on board that would include sights and sounds from the human race as a greeting to anybody out there that might find the spacecraft as it drifts through interstellar space.

The record's cover was etched with symbols very carefully designed to explain how to play it, using physical references likely to be valid anywhere in the universe. The symbols include information about our time units (measured in state transitions of a hydrogen atom, the most abundant element in the universe), our location in the universe (using the relative distance to 14 pulsars with regular periods), and instructions how to interpret the signals on the record to display images and play back sound.

The record contains greetings in 55 languages, various sounds both natural and man-made, a recording of human brainwaves, 116 photos, and a wide selection of music. Sagan meant to include "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles, but record label EMI refused to allow it.

Now 37 years old, both probes are still operating as they sail silently through interstellar space outside the solar system. The signals they send are very faint by the time they get to Earth; a digital watch consumes 20 billion times more power. The probes aren't headed toward any specific star. Engineers calculate that the records could survive out there for upwards of a billion years. Who knows... maybe someone out there will find them and say hi back.

A compilation of the images and sounds on the Voyager probes' golden records can be found here: http://youtu.be/Axj1CVG6udE

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5 Logs: Found it 5  

Found it 08/04/2017 By ArkF
Thanks for the nice cache. Skipped it on the way in, but found on the way back to the north trailhead. Took a while, but eventually looked in the right place. Very nice day, not too hot, bit of a breeze. The area is very green, surprising for August. Guess the rain has been useful. Will have to come back someday with more time and energy to get the others in this series. I found myself wondering why someone would have their own fusion reactor, and if it was still working since its ring was in the cache.

Found it 07/31/2017 By doglover&pups
Found on our hike to Disappointment Falls. Beautiful day. LNTN TFTC

Found it 10/26/2015 By jrj1980
With a Monday off from work, I decided to scout out a new hiking area that had a nice collection of caches. I had the trails to myself on this crisp fall day and managed to find eight great caches. It's nice without any muggles around and the non-micro containers are less of a headache. TFTC!

Found it 06/02/2015 By Pixel Magic
Thanks Triggur for this cache and the rest that you have scattered like star dust across the beautiful forest land. We enjoyed the easy caches along with the more challenging caches that you have provided. The science that you have exposed us to is astonishing. Well done.

Found it 03/29/2015 By Rooster 0-6
3rd find today. Another quick rock cache. TFTC