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THERE IS NOTHING AT THE POSTED COORDINATES SO I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND GOING THERE. All containers have Rite in the Rain log sheets. When stopping please try not to interfere with the flow of traffic.

I remember how much I enjoyed watching the original Star Trek series when I was younger. Over the years I have continued to watch the various Star Trek series and movies and I have many favourite episodes and movies. This series of puzzles relates only to the 79 episodes of the original series not including the pilot episode.

Episode 27 - The Alternative Factor

In this episode, the Enterprise, completing a mapping assignment, is rocked by an energy pulse. Spock informs Kirk that the gravity pull of the planet fluctuated to zero and says that the surrounding space seemed to momentarily "wink" out of existence. Sensors locate a human presence on the planet that was not there before. Kirk and Spock beam down to the planet and find a one-man spacecraft. A disheveled, bearded man named Lazarus appears and accidentally slips off a cliff. The man survives the fall but is injured, and Kirk has him beamed to the Enterprise for examination. A message from Starfleet reports that every quadrant has been subjected to the same winking effect and electronic disruption as the Enterprise. Starfleet fears that the disruption may be a prelude to an invasion and has ordered all ships except the Enterprise to leave the area. Kirk is ordered to find the cause of the disturbance, alone.

PUZZLE

The force of gravity on Earth actually changes depending on where you're standing on it. The first reason is because the Earth is rotating. This means that the gravity of Earth at the equator is 9.789 m/s2, while the force of gravity at the poles is 9.832 m/s2. In other words, you weigh more at the poles than you do at the equator because of this centripetal force, but only slightly more. If you weighed 100 pounds at the north pole on a spring scale, at the equator you would weigh 99.65 pounds. Use this factor of .9965 to solve for the coordinates.

A 105 KG person at the north pole = abc.defg KG at the equator

North 43 ge.ccf

West 079 ad.dag

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: Zhygvcyl naq gura qb gur znccvat. Pnpur: Thneq envy - oynpx fcnpre.

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)