In response to our musical offering, the
aliens broadcast a series of pulses which are translated by the
scientists into a string of numbers. These numbers are what the
computer display shows. Then the resident cartographer recognizes
them for what they are, longitude and latitude in
degrees:minutes:seconds. Next the scientists grab a globe and
declare these coordinates are in Wyoming. Everybody and his brother
(including the aliens) proceed to show up at the coordinates
which turn out to be at Devils Tower, Wyoming. However, if
they had really gone to these coordinates, they
would actually have ended up about 300 miles
away in Colorado. No one knew it at the time (geocaching
hadn't been invented yet), but the aliens were in fact giving
directions to a future cache. Recent SETI data has allowed me to
pinpoint it. Remarkably, it resembles a small earthly Rubbermaid
container, and it's filled with their gift to you of precious
stones from their home planet. They'd appreciate very small
trade items because they might return someday to retrieve it
.
Get to the movie scene where the coordinates are printing out
and write them down. Remember, the longitude is first. Treat the
degrees, minutes, and seconds as separate numbers. The cache
is at:
degLAT + 2* minLAT + 12
. secLAT + 550
degLON - 28* minLON - 4 . secLON +
750