A reddit user [1] found its location [2] and another figured out it was installed sometime during 2015-2016 based on when the satellite imagery changed.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/k01dc3/mysterious_m...
Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
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Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
#42Monoliths are supposed to be made of stone, hence the name...
Perhaps but the term lithography refers to a printing technique that can use stone or metal.
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#43Fun art installation, but it should be removed now that it's been found.
Why does it need to be removed? I understand not wanting to set a precedent, but I wish more organizations adopted a mindset that the original can stay, but no others are allowed. That leaves space for a little bit of whimsy.
Just thinking the same thing. There's no rule the you must clamp down the the first instance of a violation.
Leave it be, and leave the rule in place. If there's an epidemic of monoliths being planted on federal land, then you uproot them all and say "this is why we can't have nice things."
Until or unless that happens, just leave it alone.
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#44The background looks vaguely similar to the prehistoric monolith in 2001. But the dimensions don’t seem to be 1 x 4 x 9
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does it need to be removed? I understand not wanting to set a precedent, but I wish more organizations adopted a mindset that the original can stay, but no others are allowed. That leaves space for a little bit of whimsy.
This is a federally protected land, there are no special rules for art unless it was before when such laws were made. FWIW, I find this piece of trash to be a showoff moment for some wannabe 'artist'. Mimicking a movie prop to me sounds like a low-effort, untalented mindset.
The feds say that it's illegal to install structures or art as in this case.
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#48Fun art installation, but it should be removed now that it's been found.
Presumably it's been laying unfound for a while now. If nobody's noticed it all this time, I don't see the point in removing it.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does it need to be removed? I understand not wanting to set a precedent, but I wish more organizations adopted a mindset that the original can stay, but no others are allowed. That leaves space for a little bit of whimsy.
Just thinking the same thing. There's no rule the you must clamp down the the first instance of a violation. Leave it be, and leave the rule in place. If there's an epidemic of monoliths being planted on federal land, then you uproot them all and say "this is why we can't have nice things." Until or unless that happens, just leave it alone.
Eh, it's not good enough to get that kind of treatment.
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#50I hope this isn't the black Marker.