This is a mystery cache and is not at the posted coordinates. Trust me on this one.
There are five caches in the Missed DiRectiθn series. Each of the first four caches contains a clue to the final cache location. Record each of the clues and use them to determine the Final mystery cache of the series.
The caches in this series are:
GC45K32 - Missed DiRectiθn #1: The Foot
GC44NBR - Missed DiRectiθn #2: The Yard
GC45K39 - Missed DiRectiθn #3: The Meter
GC45K3F - Missed DiRectiθn #4: The Smoot
GC45K3P - Missed DiRectiθn #5: The Final
This puzzle construct is a departure from any I have seen to date. The geocheck is integrated into the puzzle and to reach the correct solution will require you to enter coordinates. Incorrect answers will provide clues embedded on the geocheck response. This is intentional. I can think of two methods you can use to solve it, one being significantly more efficient than the other. We'll see how it goes.
Halfway there (if you're solving them in order)...
The Meter (or Metre)
After the French Revolution (1789), a new unit of length was introduced which became known as the metre. Although there was initially considerable resistance to the adoption of the new metric system in France, the metre gained following in continental Europe during the mid nineteenth century, particularly in scientific usage, and was officially adopted as an international measurement unit by the Metre Convention of 1875. Over the next two centuries, several refinements were made, defining the length by various physical phenonena, including the Platinum-iridium bar at melting point of ice under several environmental conditions, a specific atomic transition in krypton (it says so in Wikipedia), and finally in 1983, on the speed of light, which is a universal constant.
Due to the basic universal measures and international acceptance, scientists, engineers and the medical communities even in the US usually prefer metric measures (meter, gram, liter) over the English measuring system. The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. More practically for us, it is a unit of length equal to 3.28084 feet or and is defined as being 1.000 meters exactly.
That's all you get. Might as well start your checking.
Thanks to teamajk for selecting this cache as geocaching puzzle of the day (2/28/2014).
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