Chronicles | Home On LaGrange Mystery Cache
Chronicles | Home On LaGrange
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CACHE IS LOCATED AT N°44 AB.CDE W°88 FG.HIJ
This one is being placed for everyone who's thought about placing a
cache round here, but found themselves sucked into the ATW Black
Hole.
I thought this a fitting jumping off point for the discussion of
Intergalactic Exploration since there's another launchpad close to
this one that takes to you an exotic martian landscape.
In order to get to where we are going, we have to know where we are
coming from. At the cache coordinates, you will be presented with
information, on an historical marker, about the longest active
Grange society in existence. Having grown up in rural mid-western
America, I was a little surprised to discover that I knew nothing
about this society nor that it is still quite active in promoting
the causes of rural, family-owned and operated farms.
South Greenville Grange No. EEH is the
world's oldest rural family fraternity and celebrated it's
A00th anniversary in 1D73. The National Grange was
officially organized in DC on December Cth, while the
Wisconsin State Grange was recognized a little less than five years
later on October ECth when it was organized by a JC with
B letters in his last name.
Thinking about farming in the distant past got me thinking about
farming in the future. How could we translate an agrarian
lifestyle, like that which the Grange promotes – one that stresses
agricultural pursuits such as farming or ranching that lead to a
fuller, happier, cleaner, and more sustainable way of life for
individuals and societies – to a similarly self-perpetuating
extraterrestrial one?
Well, there was another society established, about the time that
the Grange was celebrating its anniversary, with that exact purpose
– to determine a sustainable means of colonizing and living in
space. That society long ago evolved into something else, but it's
basic tenants are still being pursued, although most believe that
we still have a long way to go before giving this sci-fi fantasy
serious consideration.
The LH Society was founded to promote
space colonization. It's name comes from a series of orbit points
proposed as likely spots for its huge rotating space habitats. Of
these orbit points, only I were thought to be viable since
they would remain stationary indefinitely, while the others like
LJ through LF would need to expend fuel to compensate
for drift and maintain position. The L points and orbits proposed
by O'Neill rely on a G-body system where several of the
points share a near orbit with a smaller celestial body, in this
case our moon.
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