Blinded by Science

“	Go go gadget helicopter ... WHOA!	”
—from Inspector Gadget

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..
• 2012-03-06 42 -72 - Todd thought that typing coordinates into the Google Maps iPhone app would drop a red pin at the actual coordinates rather than a nearby road.

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 by failing to reach the ({{{latitude}}}, {{{longitude}}}) geohash on [[{{{date}}} {{{latitude}}} {{{longitude}}}|{{{date}}}]] through technological ineptitude.