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The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure

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Re: The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure

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Post by low_tech_love »

morelisp wrote: post #20
schoen wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had this funny feeling reading this, like "I've met these people before". Not literally the individual litigants or sore losers here, but people kind of like them. Then I remembered -- as I've mentioned a number of times here (including recently on the thread about the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search), I used to respond to https://www.eff.org/awards/coop e-mail. This is an award where EFF will give out monetar…

I doubt it has anything to do with the prize, the classic "What To Do When The Trisector Comes"[0] seems applicable across a lot of mathematics problems and situations. Geometry of course, perpetual motion machines, prime number finding, quantum physics interpretations... I guess if you're offering a financial prize rather than "merely" trying to teach mathematics, you're probably in too deep for any of its recommend…

Wow, that article could have been written in 2020.

Re: The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure

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Post by kortilla »

gamblor956 wrote: post #18
gumby wrote: post #2

What a great story and what a shame that people try to ruin it. I wold have been glad for the finder if he had managed to stay anonymous.

It's a horrible story. Some rich idiot put a treasure box on public lands, resulting in significant amounts of damage to national parks and monuments and several deaths. It was ruined from the beginning and it's a damn shame Fenn is no longer around to be prosecuted for it.

Prosecuted for... littering?

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Post by tromp »

schoen wrote: post #13
hiimtroymclure wrote: post #4

America: The Land of Litigation

I had this funny feeling reading this, like "I've met these people before". Not literally the individual litigants or sore losers here, but people kind of like them. Then I remembered -- as I've mentioned a number of times here (including recently on the thread about the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search), I used to respond to https://www.eff.org/awards/coop e-mail. This is an award where EFF will give out monetar…

> If I then factored the resulting number, these people would then tweak the formula again and insist that they had fixed it.

Along with each successive refutation, you should require them to include a cheque for double the last amount with their next fix, starting with a reasonable $25.

Re: The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure

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Post by goodcanadian »

chihuahua wrote: post #16
m0ngr31 wrote: post #15

I've posted this before, but I thought myself GIS to help find the treasure and wrote a webapp to narrow down the search area ( https://intothefor.rest ) I personally believe the main reason the finder won't release the location is because he found it on federal land (probably Yellowstone). But hopefully some day we'll know closer than just "Wyoming".

I thought that the solution was posted in one of the many articles about this. Something based on numbers/digits embedded in the words of the poem (e.g. one=>1 too=>2 etc), and the digits wrap around the end of the poem, but you're supposed to start at the word "begin". Unfortunately I am unable to find it in my browser history.

From the article,

When asked if figuring out the puzzles required the use of anagrams, or GPS coordinates, or sophisticated codes of any sort, Stuef was clear in his response.

“No,” . . .

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Post by dkarp »

gamblor956 wrote: post #18
gumby wrote: post #2

What a great story and what a shame that people try to ruin it. I wold have been glad for the finder if he had managed to stay anonymous.

It's a horrible story. Some rich idiot put a treasure box on public lands, resulting in significant amounts of damage to national parks and monuments and several deaths. It was ruined from the beginning and it's a damn shame Fenn is no longer around to be prosecuted for it.

I have to agree. It's an allegory of greed.

The "Monolith" gives me similar vibes.

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Post by jmkb »

kortilla wrote: post #22
gamblor956 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a horrible story. Some rich idiot put a treasure box on public lands, resulting in significant amounts of damage to national parks and monuments and several deaths. It was ruined from the beginning and it's a damn shame Fenn is no longer around to be prosecuted for it.

Prosecuted for... littering?

And creating a nuisance.

Re: The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure

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Post by tasuki »

gamblor956 wrote: post #18
gumby wrote: post #2

What a great story and what a shame that people try to ruin it. I wold have been glad for the finder if he had managed to stay anonymous.

It's a horrible story. Some rich idiot put a treasure box on public lands, resulting in significant amounts of damage to national parks and monuments and several deaths. It was ruined from the beginning and it's a damn shame Fenn is no longer around to be prosecuted for it.

Who's an idiot, the rich person that hid a treasure or the people who go into the wilderness and die?

People need to learn to be responsible for themselves. Supposing they were adults, going into the wilderness and not being able to survive is totally on them. "But there was a hidden treasure" is not an excuse.

People damaging national parks and monuments - again, that's on them. "But there was a hidden treasure" is not an excuse in this case either.

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