A Great Story | LeaveItToUs Mystery Cache
A Great Story | LeaveItToUs
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CACHE LOCATED AT N44°AB.CDE
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This series is dedicated to a real Wizard
of the sciences who inspires our youth to think about the physics
of natural laws in unique and engaging ways, our own Professor
Gizmo. I have been inspired by Giz's caches since the very
beginning and this tribute is a long time coming and part of the
reason it is a series and not just a single tribute
cache.
The theory of natural selection, 'paraphrased', states that the
strongest and most adaptive species will survive to produce
offspring upon which their successful survival traits will be
passed and perpetuated. Non-adaptive species, who have weak
survival strategies, will not propagate as many offspring since
many won't live long enough to do so, and therefor not pass on
their not-to-bright genes.
Well, we humans are certainly not immune to this rule of nature,
although we do sport cognisance and free will. We also display more
than a few influential non-survival emotions, including sympathy
and compassion, to help carry some of our less deserving through.
Indeed, it's this sense of thinking we "know better" that gets some
of us into trouble when we ignore our gut instincts and proceed to
put ourselves at incredible peril.
Some years ago, a special category of awards was created to credit
these highly evolved individuals who, by natural selection, saw fit
to end their own genetic lines on our behalf. I speak, of course,
of the Darwin awards. Your task will be to determine which year the
Darwin was awarded to the recipients listed below. While there are
hundreds of Darwins, I have chosen only a handful where the animals
in the deadly encounters displayed more sense than their human
counterparts.
A: This sleeping shepherd should
have remembered to put the safety on before he started counting
sheep.
B: This brilliant thief tried a
new tactic to escape his pursuers by hiding out with some frisky
felines.
C: This south of the border boozer
thought a shot of fresh honey would make the perfect chaser, he was
right.
D: This eager fisherman decided to
expedite the extraction of nighties using a few more joules than
most and got juiced in the process.
E: This nature-loving Krishna
decided he wanted to do more than talk with the animals and ended
up swimming with the fishes.
F: This orange farmer took all the
precaution he needed from potential stings, except giving himself a
little room to breathe.
G: This guy should have kept a
little whiskey on hand to loosen up his hungry constrictor.
H: This infamous stargazer, who
named some animalistic constellations, was too polite to excuse
himself from the table to relieve himself and got closer to the
stars as a result (use the death year for this one).
I: Why did the chicken fall down
the well? To get these six idiots to the "other side".
J: Sheep are not the only
trigger-happy critters out there, snakes can pull a "Pulp Fiction"
too!
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