Blinded by Science
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Revision as of 21:31, 26 November 2011 by imported>Steingesicht (→Claimants: add Steingesicht)
“ | Go go gadget helicopter ... WHOA!
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—from Inspector Gadget
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Claim this consolation prize if you travel to the wrong point, or run out of time to get to the right one, because of a technological error. Typically this would be entering the wrong point in your GPS, tracking direct-to the wrong waypoint, pressing the wrong button and deleting the waypoint, or otherwise making a GPS user error. Starting with the wrong data because of entering the wrong date on the website, transposing numbers, or otherwise mucking up the technology also qualify.
Claimants
Found a novel way to mess up GPS navigation, or just want more sympathy for your failed expedition? Link to it here.
- 2008-06-30_46_14 - Janos encountered an Epoc Fail using peeron
- 2009-03-22_-36_145 - mykaDragonBlue encountered an User Fail while transcribing coordinates
- 2009-09-08 49 8 - On his expedition without GPS, ilpadre did not realize a distinctive parking lot has been rebuilt 130 m to the east and thus went to the wrong place.
- 2010-01-09 49 8 - Euterkuh and fivetonsofflax were led to the wrong side of a river and were to lazy to find a way around.
- mtu had all of his five very first geohashes invalidated by having set a wrong map datum on his GPS device.
- 2011-10-22 43 -87 - RocketMac went to coordinates from peeron only to later find they were wrong!
- 2011-11-25 48 9 - Steingesicht tried to reach the hashpoint by using aerial images - but he took the wrong turn..
Ribbon
It may make you feel better about your technological fiasco if you use this template to put a ribbon on your user page.
If you can manage not to screw that up too....
This user earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize
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