University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt Returns

mresolver writes "We've discussed it in previous years, and now the world's largest scavenger hunt at the University of Chicago has returned. The event may be best known for the working breeder reactor students built for the 1999 hunt. This year, some of the 330 list items (PDF) include 3-D (and 4-D) Twister, a hand-built Theremin, a recreation of the Moon landing, the world's largest Newton's Cradle, and hyperbolic crocheting."

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a recreation of the Moon landing

[morgan_greywolf]

a recreation of the Moon landing

We're gonna need a whole lot of Mentos and Diet Coke for that one!

i knew it

[mastershake_phd]

a recreation of the Moon landing

The moon landing was staged at the university of Chicago!

Re:PDF sucks

[EvanED]

The first item on the list is the list itself.

You don't want them to make it too easy to get, do you?

Re:PDF sucks

[ackthpt]

What is up with PDF documents? (In this case, the list of items.) Why can't people just use normal hypertext? It makes it harder for people like me to view.

Hypertext doesn't print friendly from your browser.

Re:PDF sucks

[RingDev]

Well there's your problem! What the heck are you doing trying to print from MY browser?

-Rick

Road trip rules

[0100010001010011]

"May not have received no moving violations or convictions or court-ordered supervision."

So does that mean you have to have a moving violation to drive?

Maybe my English parser is broken on Friday.

Re:PDF sucks

[Anonymous Coward]

...because Scavhunt often has extensive typographic needs. Consider the 2006 list--upside-down text, non-roman scripts, fractions and greek letters aplenty. TeX is clearly the tool of choice.

Re:Harder to find

[gurps_npc]

I don't think they exist. >

Not again

[cloudkiller]

252. While at Carhenge, drive the earth into the sun! [1,000,000,000 points; 2 points for effort]

Someone better get homeland security on the phone.

Re:A few more highlights and comments:

[Tom]

While I found most of the comments here funny, this one frightens me.

Because I live in Germany.
Because as my grandparents told me, the Germans ca. 1936-39 spoke jokingly about the GESTAPO.

Rubbery

[youthoftoday]

As the PDF was downloading I was saying to myself 'Please be LaTeX, please be LaTeX'.
For some reason the fact that they did restores my faith in humanity.

The best on the list:

[slimjim8094]

Number 87:

Schroedinger's dick in a box [0 or 1 points. Maybe both if you don't open the box]

Seriously though, its nice to see that universities are still academic, but also just plain fun. Although it's pretty sad that we all get both parts of that joke...

Re:Hand Built Theremin - Is there any other kind?

[illuminatedwax]

The point of the U of C Scavenger Hunt is not to go find things and bring them back. That would be exceedingly boring. The important thing for each item is that the solution be interesting. That means that would be great if you bring back a vintage theremin from 1960, or if you built one yourself. Even better would be to bring in a real theremin being helf by Brian Wilson. The main point of the Hunt is creativity. U of C is not MIT.