How expensive would a solid piece of metal that size be?
Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
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#12No one seems to have watched 2001: A Space Odyssey. Sad.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or mashed potatoes? "This means something..."
UHF! I caught that reference. It took me years to understand that reference fully. When I saw UHF originally it bugged me that I knew it was a reference to something but I didn't know what. Finally, a decade later I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind and I finally put two and two together.
probably the weirdest comment on HN to which I've ever thought "me too!"
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#14How expensive would a solid piece of metal that size be?
Depends on what type of metal. Tungsten? Very expensive. Steel? Somwhere between $1000-5000
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#15No one seems to have watched 2001: A Space Odyssey. Sad.
It's mentioned in the article.
Mr Hutchings speculated that the monolith may have been installed by "some new wave artist", or a fan of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 1968 film directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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#16Fun art installation, but it should be removed now that it's been found.
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#17No one seems to have watched 2001: A Space Odyssey. Sad.
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#18If not an actual John McCracken piece, then likely heavily inspired by the artist. Beautiful!
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#19Monoliths are supposed to be made of stone, hence the name...
Or code
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#20In Spore the video game you send down a monolith to upgrade a planet. I found this to be a very tasteful tidbit that paid homage to Kubrick.