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Caching Karma's Gonna Get You Mystery Cache

Hidden : 5/19/2015
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Life is often about balance.


If we don't pay our taxes (as a community), we can't expect public services such as hospitals, education and law and order, to name a few.

If we spend all our lives working, we never get to enjoy the things for which we have worked.

And if we don't place caches.......well let's not imagine what that could be like!

One of my favourite statistics from the GSAK application is the "Caching Karma" part. Ever since I started caching I have kept an eye on it, trying to catch up how many caches I had found with the number of finds on my caches.

Karma

A lot of our first hides were puzzle caches, our favourite kind. But you don't get as many finds as these take a bit more effort than traditional caches by definition. So I put out a few easy "quick grab" caches near where I work in Eveleigh. From here on the number of finds on my caches shot up steadily. Also my own "find" rate has slowed a little (but still over 1/day!) and equilibrium was reached finally on May 19th, 2015, shortly after the 15th Anniversary of Geocaching in Australia attracted many cachers to my home GZ radius resulting in about 30 finds on my caches in one weekend.

Not So Instant

In the interest of balance however, as I no longer need lots of finds to get karma happening, here is a little balance puzzle to help you find the cache:

Up and Down

Marie-Antoinette is a healthy young lass who has placed an apple weighing 120 grams on the other end of the see saw. She is sitting exactly 1m from the middle. She has worked out, in order to balance the see saw, that she would have to move the apple 281.775 metres from the middle on the other side. How much does she weigh? Let this weight in kilos be equal to S.

She then invites her Dad Jean-Luc onto the See Saw. He is also sitting 1 metre from the middle. She also gets her Mum Giselle and twin brothers Christof and Cyril with a combined weight of 60.45348 kilos who manage to balance out Jean-Luc at a distance of 2.5 metres from the middle on the other side. How heavy is her Dad? Let this be equal to E.

Congrats to Smigatron on the FTF!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr - Lbh fubhyq trg vg va n zbzrag. TM - Ng gur onpx bs gur "pnir" ohg abg qbja va gur "thyyl". Fcenl cnvagrq oynpx.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)