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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Babel Fish Mystery Cache

Hidden : 11/16/2019
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. This is cache number fourteen of a series using quotes from the books.

“The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with the nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language."

― Douglas Adams

Please replace the container exactly as you found. If you have trouble replacing it as found, please let me know. Have fun and "Don't Panic".


Puzzle


As you presumably don't have a babel fish, you'll need to decode the alien information by hand to obtain the coordinates.



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This cache is part of the GC9NCJ3 Master Of Mystery #64 - Tampere geocache.
Don't forget your towel when you travel to Finland.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vs lbh fbyirq gur chmmyr orsber 11/19/2019, lbh'yy arrq hcqngrq pbbeqvangrf nf gur pnpur jnf zbirq gb n arj cnex. Frr abgr va fbyhgvba sbe nqqvgvbany uvqr vasbezngvba naq cnexvat.

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)