Talk:2009-07-06 49 10

Gripping report - congratulations on a successful expedition and staying alive by not getting lightningstruck. Me and my girlfriend were in a car when we got caught in a thunderstorm with massive rainfall a few hours after your expedition; around us frightening cloud formations looking like pyroclastic flow and a finger stretching down to the ground. I definitely would not have liked to be outside that moment. So, how was your BBQ? ;)

The weather forecast did say "rain and thunderstorms possible", but there had only been a few single drops during the day and the sun was shining when I set out. It really wasn't a nice experience. The BBQ was relocated to a balcony. - Danatar 10:02, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

"Auf Wiedersehen"

So that's what it translates to! Thanks! -- Jevanyn

The Wiki, Geohashing.info and Peeron say that the coordinates were at 49.0732875,10.5899034 near Lentersheim. However, the Wiki's map shows coordinates near Unterpleichfeld, and those coordinates were the coordinates which you visited. The same discrepancy arises in the other eastern expeditions on this day.
I wonder whether the Lentersheim or the Unterpleichfeld coordinates are correct. There may be some corrupted/inconsistent data, perhaps it has something to do with the Dow Holiday on the USA's independence day two days earlier. --Fippe (talk) 23:58, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

It should be easy enough to check, by doing the hash calculation from the comic [note: I didn't do that]... actually, what I suspect is going on is that for some reason different sources have different values for the Dow result. It happens that this Dow holiday was the first one since the invention of geohashing that is supposed to be observed on a date other than the actual holiday; this may be important.
My guess would be that either 1) the algorithms in use at the time wanted a value for the 2009-07-03 opening, did not get one because of the holiday, and used some kind of fallback that wasn't just the previous day's opening, or 2) for some internal reason the Dow did not have a holiday on 2009-07-03, but some of the algorithms assumed it did. I'm not sure which is more implausible. --January First-of-May (talk) 07:32, 25 October 2020 (UTC)