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Title: The Cache
Date:  Tue Sep 17, 1996 18:19:44

I want to take this time to dispell some rumors about caching techneques, and
offer some newly found insites to the subject. First, Oil is not a very
effective rust inhibitor. Non-soap based grease is much better. Cheap grease
works much better. Buy it at farm stores in 5-gallon buckets and put a thick
coat (dip it) on all of your parts.  Second, wrapping pieces in wax paper and
masking tape is not very effective in preserving parts. The test is to hold
it underwater for some time and if it stays dry inside it is okay.  Third,
Polyethylene bags are not good to keep stuff dry over time.  Water will
migrate through polyethylene (as can be seen by freezer burned food caused by
water migrating out of it's polyethylene wrapping).  Fourth, "zip Locking" on
bags is not an effective seal.  At least use a hot seal on a bag.  Fifth,
Make sure your burial boxes/tubes/etc are polypropylene (for the same reason
as #3 above).  You can buy pipe end-caps without raising suspicions.. some
people use screw-on fittings and others say to glue both ends in place.  You
can stand your tube on end in a deep hole and your metal objects will be deep
enough underground to thwart most metal detectors, while still allowing you
easy access.  Some people are worried about being photograped by satellites
flying overhead... The Photographs taken of the earth's surface on routine
flybys are not that detailed.  Even our benevolent government can not keep
track of every square foot of the millions of square miles of this country. 
They can, however, zoom in on something that is of interest to them.  The way
they find stuff of interest is with infrared photos and ground penetrating
radar.  In dry conditions Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) can penetrate the
earth for miles. Underground rivers in the Sahara were found two miles down
with satellite based GPR.  So the second to the last place you want to bury
something is out in the middle of nowhere, someplace where it does not
belong.  It will show up like a pimple on your forehead on both the infrared
and GPR Photos.  The Infrared photos can be so sensitive that they will show
where the heat trasfered from your foot to your foot prints for several
minutes.  The IR photos can show where the dirt is a different consistency,
or where there is a void under the dirt causing the temperature to be
different.  The defense is to bury stuff where it is not out of place: 
Abandoned landfills or junkyards are good.  Another chunk of metal is not
unusual in this setting.  Another good place is near power lines.  The
Electromagnetic force (EMF) also interfers with radar of almost all types. 
And "hot insulators" that are leaking and are warm are common, which throws
off IR detection.  Under Bridges or other metal bearing structures are also
very good.  One admittedly bizarre place is to stick stuff in new graves (Hey,
the digging is easy).  Just make sure the coffin is made out of metal so that
the metal you stick in does not look out of place.  Note: Steel coffins are
cheap; therefore poor people's coffins are almost always made out of steel. 
The absolute last place you want to bury something is on your property.  Our
benevolent government confiscates assets at the rate of 250,000 times a year, 
This is almost 1000 times a day on a 5 day week... So DO NOT bury stuff on
your property or leave a trail back to yourself.  Lastly, KEEP YOUR MOUTH
SHUT. If a person who is making caches makes it known that they are doing so,
Then the cache is worthless...

Anonymous

Origin: The (/\)astelands of Alpha-1 BBS!
